Given name
Maria Cristina
Maria Cristina is a feminine given name from Spanish. It is used in Tagalog.
Original SpanishMaría
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Spanish María, built from Tagalog Maria + Cristina.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Maria Cristina’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Maria Cristina has a diminutive in MARICRIS. In Filipino usage, Maria Cristina was borrowed from the Spanish form María.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Maria Cristina
- Maria Cristina MessaItalian physician, academic and politicianborn 1961
- Cini BoeriItalian architect and designer (1924-2020)
- Ná OzzettiBrazilian singer and composerborn 1958
- Maria Cristina CarettaItalian politicianborn 1964
- Princess Maria Cristina of Savoy-AostaItalian princess (1933–2023)
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