Cristina

Where Cristina comes from

Borrowed from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Cristina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Cristina
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,416 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner born
    president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
  3. 1972
    Cristina Scabbia born
    Italian singer
  4. 1986
    Peak, #163
    1,707 babies named Cristina — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #365.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, equivalent to English Christina.
Namesakes
  • Cristina Fernández de Kirchner · president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015, born 1953
  • Cristina Scabbia · Italian singer, born 1972
  • Cristina Neagu · Romanian handball player, born 1988

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.