Given name
Christabelle
“Christ”·“beauty”
Christabelle is a feminine given name.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Christabelle is a form of Christabel. Christabel is built from elements meaning “Christ” and “beauty”.
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Where it comes from
Christabelle is a form of Christabel. Christabel comes from Middle English.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Christabelle is a variant of Christabel. The history of Christabel gives this family its wider story. Samuel Taylor Coleridge appears to have created Christabel for his poem of that title. The suffragette Christabel Pankhurst later gave the name a further historical association.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Christabelle through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 274
- 0 boys · 274 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,559 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −54%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,559 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 335 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Christabelle’s family of names
Christabelle has a related form in Christabel.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Christabelle
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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