Christien
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹɪstin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Christien is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 319K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 74K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,881 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Christien 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,881 | 1 in 9.2K | 1.8K | Christien | 53 |
| US United States | 1,043 | 1 in 319K | 791 | Christien | 215 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Christien | 24 |
| EG Egypt | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 482K | — | Christien | 14 |
| PH Philippines | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 567K | — | Christien | 23 |
| BE Belgium | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 96K | 92 | Christien | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 316K | — | Christien | 57 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
1,881 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christien Kokb. 1949NLDutch writer
- Christien Brinkgreveb. 1949NLDutch writer
- Christien Rijnsdorpb. 1951NLDutch sculptor
- Christien Boomsmab. 1969NLDutch writer
- Christien Anholtb. 1971GBEnglish actor
- Christien Tinsleyb. 1974American make-up artist
- Christien Meindertsmab. 1980NLDutch artist and designer (born 1980)
- Chris Charlesb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1981)
- Christien Gholsonb. 2000USAmerican writer
- Christien RiouxUSAmerican computer programmer
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)
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 33 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 92 | #16,597 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Christien?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹɪstin/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Christien a male or female name?
- Christien 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.
- In which country does Christien have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Christien, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christien.
- Where is Christien most common?
- Christien is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Christien?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,881 people named Christien, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Christien?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/christienThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Christien”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.