The name Christine is a variant of Christina, a feminine form of the Latin name Christianus. It stands for ‘a Christian’ and was derived from the Greek name Christos meaning ‘anointed’.
Christine is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Christine 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, Christine ranks 769. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Christine. In total, there are currently 572,971 people – children, adults and seniors – named Christine living in the United States, which is approximately 0.17 % of the entire population.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Christine is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Christine for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Christine is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Christine is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 14 Christine easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1968.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Christine was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 216 babies were named Christine in the USA in 2022, ranking it #1,024 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2021, when it was only ranked at #1,025 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 214 girls were named Christine.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Christine. Because: There are women and girls named Christine 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 Christine 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 Massachusetts, where Christine ranks on place 18. The greatest chance of meeting Christine, however, is in Rhode Island, where one in 128 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 269 women and girls and in Texas, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 574 women and girls for their name before you once get Christine 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 Christine 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 Christine 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 Christine, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Christine
Christine
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Christine sounds like this:
