Cristina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Variant of Cristiana; 'Christian, belonging to Christ'

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɾistina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cristina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 208(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 221
  • SESweden1 in 63as Kristina

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cristina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈690,000 named Кристина, est.

#24 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
644 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 208 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChristineLatin(measured from records)
КристинаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΧριστιναGreek(measured from records)
קריסטינהHebrew(measured from records)
ՔրիստինաArmenian(measured from records)
คริสติน่าThai(measured from records)
ქრისტინეGeorgian(measured from records)
크리스티나Hangul(measured from records)

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Krystyna in PL Poland, FR France, Christine in US United States, Кристина in RU Russia and Kristina in SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Variant of Cristiana; 'Christian, belonging to Christ'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cristina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cristina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#59≈690,000 est.≈1 in 204#42Кристина213
US United States#14482,596as Christine1 in 689482KChristine644
PL Poland#15383,140as Krystyna1 in 100383KKrystyna165
ES Spain#17226,0721 in 221227KCristina278
FR France—≈220,000 est.≈1 in 315281KKrystyna119
SE Sweden#4161,876as Kristina1 in 63162KKristina144
HU Hungary—75,774as Krisztina1 in 12976Kכריסטינה3
PT Portugal#31≈50,000 est.≈1 in 208listedCristina186

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cristina is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch, Swedish

    Also written Crístina, Çrįstįną, Čristina, Crïstïna, Crïstïnä

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Crîstina, Crístina

  • Romanian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Cristìna, Crìstìna, Crístína, Crïstina, Crïstïna

  • German given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Spain, Austria

    Also written Ĉristina, Çrisťina, Cristína

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Cristinä, Cristinà, Crístina

  • Khmer given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Italy, United States, Vietnam

    Languages: Khmer, Vietnamese

    Also written Çristina

  • Lao given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Philippines, Thailand, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Crìstìnà, Crǐstǐna, Cristinä, Crïstïnä, Crístíná

90 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cristina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From Latin. See }Christina in main dictionary.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Italian, de Cristo com sufixo feminino singular -ina

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Significado: Espíritu guardián, ángel guardián

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Italian, da S. Cristina di Bolsena; femminile di Cristiano

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, S. Cristina di Bolsena, martire. 24 luglio. I1 nome di Cristo, per reverenza, non è mai iisato dai Cattolici, raramente dai Greci. Cristina, -no ne tengono il luogo. Cogn. Cristini.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, b. 1943Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, b. 1953Christina Applegate, b. 1971Christina Hendricks, b. 1975Christina Ricci, b. 1980Christina Milian, b. 1981Aubrey Plaza, b. 1984Keira Knightley, b. 1985Gemma Arterton, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Cristina,Hi Cristina, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 107 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Cristina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—227K#13
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—226K#30
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202081K#647
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.7K#634
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20232.9K#2,635
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.5K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.2K#445
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.2K#445
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020171#647
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025128—
PT PortugalIRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos———

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cristina mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of Cristiana; 'Christian, belonging to Christ'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
How do you pronounce Cristina?
A machine transcription gives /kɾistina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cristina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 695 thousand people named Кристина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Cristina?
In Spain, the national register counted 226,072 people named Cristina, about 1 in 221 residents.
How common is Cristina compared with other names?
In Russia, Cristina is the 59th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
Is Cristina a male or female name?
Cristina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Cristina?
In the etymology graph, Christine, Christina and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cristina” — the 59th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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