Given name
Cristiana
Cristiana is a feminine given name. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Cristiana isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cristiana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 922
- 0 boys · 922 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,440 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −54%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,440 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 53.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 42 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,599 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.
Cristiana’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Cristiana has a conventional equivalent in the German form Christine. In Italian usage, Cristiana has a conventional equivalent in the German form Christina. In Portuguese usage, Cristiana has a conventional equivalent in the German form Kristine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Cristianmasculine form
- ChristinaGerman
- ChristineGerman
- Cristianomasculine form
- Cristinaequivalent
- Kristinaequivalent
- Kirstenequivalent
- ChristianaEnglish
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- KristineGerman
- Kristinequivalent
- Kristyequivalent
- Kristiequivalent
- Kristiinaequivalent
- Kerstinequivalent
- Christianeequivalent
- Krystynaequivalent
- Kineequivalent
- Krisztinaequivalent
- Kristianeequivalent
- Krystianaequivalent
- Cristinequivalent
- ChristinGerman
- Cerstinequivalent
- Kristýnaequivalent
- Kristínequivalent
- Cristianeequivalent
- Kristínaequivalent
People named Cristiana
- Saint NinoEarly Christian saint (296–335)
- Cristiana GirelliItalian footballerborn 1990
- Cristiana CapotondiItalian actressborn 1980
- Cristiana OliveiraBrazilian actressborn 1963
- Cristiana RealiBrazilian actressborn 1965
- Cristiana Dell'AnnaItalian actressborn 1985
- Christiane of Saxe-Merseburg(1659-1679)
- Cristiana CorsiItalian taekwondo practitioner1976–2016
- Cristiana MuscardiniItalian politicianborn 1948
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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