Given name & surname · also Spanish
Cristino
Cristino is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Cristino comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Italian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cristino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 332
- 332 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,542 as a first name in 2020; 620 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.
Cristino’s family of names
Cristino has a related form in Christian. In Spanish usage, Cristino has a conventional equivalent in the Basque form Kristin. In Spanish usage, Cristino has a conventional equivalent in the Catalan form Cristí.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cristino
- Cristino Seriche BiokoPrime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (1940–2024)
- Cristino Martos y BalbíSpanish politician (1830-1893)
- Cristino NicolaidesArgentinian military personnel (1925-2011)
- Cristino GarcíaFrench resistance member (1913–1946)
- Cristino JaraParaguayan footballerborn 1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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