Cristina
- Pronunciation
- [Cris-ti-na]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Follower Of Christ.
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Cristina
Cristina is the Spanish and Italian form of Christina, a name built on the Latin Christianus — meaning a follower or adherent of Christ, derived from the Greek Christos (the anointed one). The name has been in continuous use across Catholic Europe since the early Christian centuries, carried by saints, queens, and literary figures. The Spanish and Italian Cristina, without the h of the northern European forms, reflects the orthographic conventions of Romance languages and has been a fixture of Hispanic and Italian naming tradition for well over a millennium.
Among its notable modern bearers, writer Cristina Peri Rossi — born November 12, 1941 in Montevideo — is known as a Uruguayan-Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, and translator whose work spans more than forty volumes of fiction, verse, and journalism, and who received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award in Spanish-language literature.
In SSA records, Cristina first entered the top-1000 in 2000 and peaked at #336 in 2001, accumulating 8,149 top-1000 births over its tracked run. The name then declined gradually through the 2000s and early 2010s: #853 with 309 births in 2011, #950 with 268 births in 2012, and a final tracked appearance at #958 with 264 births in 2013. for this specific spelling. Cristina's Mediterranean elegance and deep Christian-tradition roots give it an enduring dignity well beyond its relatively modest American chart presence.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Cristina
US Popularity History (2000–2013)
Annual US births named Cristina by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 913 girls named Cristina (girl rank #338 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2013, ranked #958 for girls (264 US births). That's 620 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Cristina Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Cristina the strongest states are Colorado, Arizona, Texas.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colorado | #747 | 20 |
| 2 | Arizona | #829 | 31 |
| 3 | Texas | #846 | 291 |
| 4 | California | #881 | 235 |
| 5 | Florida | #933 | 133 |
| 6 | New Jersey | #953 | 36 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Jersey | #953 | 36 |
| 2 | Florida | #933 | 133 |
| 3 | California | #881 | 235 |
| 4 | Texas | #846 | 291 |
| 5 | Arizona | #829 | 31 |
| 6 | Colorado | #747 | 20 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Cristina in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Famous People Named Cristina
1 notable figure from history and culture who share the name Cristina.
- Cristina Peri Rossi is a renowned woman writer of Latin America and is known for her works such as ‘The Ship of Fools’ and ‘Abandoned museums’.
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Compare Cristina to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Cristina against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).