Given name · also Swedish
Kristiina
“follower of Christ”
Kristiina has a related form in Kristina. In English use, Kristina carries the interpretation “follower of Christ.”
Original LatinChristiana
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kristiina has a related form in Kristina. In English use, Kristina carries the interpretation “follower of Christ.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kristiina comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Kristiina developed from Kristina. In Finnish usage, Kristiina developed from Christiana.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kristiina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 5 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 girls is 5 in 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 147 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.
Kristiina’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Kristiina has an affectionate form in KIRSTI. In Finnish usage, Kristiina developed from the Swedish form Kristina. In Finnish usage, Kristiina has a conventional equivalent in the French form Christine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kristiina has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Kristiina comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kristiina
- Kristiina OjulandEstonian politician (born 1966)
- Kristiina EhinEstonian poet, translator, and singer (born 1977)
- Kristiina MäkeläFinnish triple jumperborn 1992
- Kristiina MäkiCzech and Finnish runnerborn 1991
- Kristiina PoskaEstonian conductor (born 1978)
- Kristiina BraskFinnish singerborn 1990
- Kristiina Wegeliusfigure skaterborn 1960
- Kristiina WheelerFinnish singerborn 1983
- Kristiina KassEstonian translator and writer (born 1970)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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