Kristine

Where Kristine comes from

The dictionaries list Kristine as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Christine — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,919 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Peak, #104
    3,314 babies named Kristine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    Kristine Lilly born
    American soccer player
  4. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #169.
  5. 1995
    Kristine Froseth born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Christine.
Namesakes
  • Kristine Froseth · American actress, born 1995
  • Kristine Lilly · American soccer player, born 1971
  • Kristine Bonnevie · Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor, 1872–1948
  • Kristine Sutherland · American actress, born 1955
  • Kristine Lunde-Borgersen · Norwegian handball player, born 1980

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.