girls:
52.1k births since 1906
#566 (90th percentile)
boys:
270 births since 1975
#4316 (6th percentile)
overall:
52.4k births since 1906
#1050 (86th percentile)
The name Cristina is the #1,050 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52,403 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 86.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #566 (90.1% percentile) for all time with 52,133 births since 1906. For boys, it ranks #4,316 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 270 births since 1975.
Cristina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for girls and 1975 for boys).
The name Cristina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cristina reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 81.1% percentile (ranked #164) with 858 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 925 births per million (ranked 80.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cristina ranks #789 for girls (16.7% percentile) with 93 births per million, which is 10.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cristina reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #695) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cristina".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cristina is pronounced as krih-STEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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