Christina is the Latin feminine form of Christian, meaning ‘a Christian’ or ‘follower of Christ’. The word derived from the Greek verb ‘chrio’ meaning ‘to anoint’.
Christina is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Christina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Christina ranks 384. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Christina. In total, there are currently 470,515 people – children, adults and seniors – named Christina living in the United States, which is approximately 0.14 % of the entire population.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Christina is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Christina for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Christina is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Christina is a very special name, which reached its peak of popularity only in the last quarter of the 20th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius statistics: With position 12 Christina has never been more popular than back in 1985.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Christina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Christina. Because: There are women and girls named Christina in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Christina is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in California, where Christina ranks on place 27. The greatest chance of meeting Christina, however, is in Alaska, where one in 166 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 328 women and girls and in North Dakota, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 697 women and girls for their name before you once get Christina as an answer.
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 nine letters, the name Christina is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more 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 your name is Christina 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 Christina, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Christina
Christina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
R
I
S
T
I
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
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. Christina sounds like this:
