Christiana is a female first name.
Christiana is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,308 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,307 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Christiana.
You may not know anyone named Christiana, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to women and girls named Christiana. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Christiana living in one state or another. If your name is Christiana and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Christiana relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,628 women and girls their names before you hear Christiana as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With ten letters, the name Christiana is obviously a particularly long first name used in the U.S.: only 1.8% of all common first names have exactly ten letters. 98% of all first names are shorter, while only 0.6% of all boys’ and girls’ names need more than ten letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If you take all the letters in the name Christiana – C, h, r, i, s, t, i, a, n and a – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Christiaan.
If your name is Christiana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Christiana, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Christiana
Christiana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
R
I
S
T
I
A
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
H
R
I
S
T
I
A
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Christiana sounds like this:
