Cristiano

Where Cristiano comes from

Cristiano hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1973
    Cristiano Doni born
    Italian footballer
  2. 1985
    Cristiano Ronaldo born
    Portuguese association football player
  3. 1989
    First appearance
    #6,941 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2015
    Peak, #841
    267 babies named Cristiano — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cristiano Ronaldo · Portuguese association football player, born 1985
  • Cristiano Doni · Italian footballer, born 1973
  • Cristiano Zanetti · Italian footballer, born 1977
  • Cristiano Biraghi · Italian footballer, born 1992
  • Cristiano da Matta · Brazilian racing driver, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.