Given name & surname
Cristina
“follower of Christ”
Cristina is a variant of Christina. One English interpretation is “follower of Christ.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cristina is a variant of Christina. One English interpretation is “follower of Christ.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Cristina is a variant of Christina. Christina has been associated with Latin and Middle English naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Cristina.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1906. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cristina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 52,698
- 270 boys · 52,428 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 1,781 babies
- 2025
- 128
- #1,622 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −25%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 128 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 1,622 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 25.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,763 in 1990. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (31). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 81,417 as a first name in 2020; 457 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cristina’s family of names
In Asturian usage, Cristina has a diminutive in Tina. Cristina shares a linguistic root with Christina. In Romanian usage, Cristina has a conventional equivalent in the German form Christine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Cristina has relatives in 15 languages.
16 related names in 15 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Christinavariant · English, German
- Kristinavariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Slovene
- Tinadiminutive · Asturian
- Cristidiminutive · Spanish
- Cristtinalikely variant
- Cristinnalikely variant
- Crisstinalikely variant
- Crisingdiminutive · Tagalog
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 29
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ChristianEnglish
- Christinealso known as · French, German
- Christianaequivalent
- Kristineequivalent
- Kristinalso known as · Basque, Swedish
- Kristyequivalent
- ChristaGerman
- Crisequivalent
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- Kristiequivalent
- Cristianaequivalent
- Krisztinaequivalent
- KrystynaPolish
- Kristianeequivalent
- Cristineequivalent
- Krystianaequivalent
- Cristinequivalent
- Kristiinaequivalent
- Christianeequivalent
- Kineequivalent
- Кристинаequivalent
- ΧριστίναGreek
- KristýnaCzech
- Cristianeequivalent
- Kristínaequivalent
- Cerstinequivalent
- Kristínequivalent
- Cristienaequivalent
- KristiñeBasque
- CristíCatalan
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Cristina
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerpresident of Argentina from 2007 to 2015born 1953
- Infanta Cristina of SpainSpanish royalborn 1965
- Cristina ScabbiaItalian singerborn 1972
- Cristina NeaguRomanian handball playerborn 1988
- Cristina Peri RossiUruguayan writer (born 1941)
- Cristina Trivulzio BelgiojosoItalian noblewoman, patriot, editor and philanthropist (1808–1871)
- Cristina ScarlatMoldovan singerborn 1981
- Cristina ComenciniItalian film director, screenwriter and novelistborn 1956
- Cristina BucșaMoldovan-born Spanish tennis playerborn 1998
Characters named Cristina: Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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