girls:
84.2k births since 1916
#418 (93rd percentile)
boys:
185 births since 1952
#4401 (4th percentile)
overall:
84.4k births since 1916
#766 (90th percentile)
The name Kristine is the #766 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 84,414 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 90.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #418 (92.7% percentile) for all time with 84,229 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,401 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 185 births since 1952.
Kristine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1952 for boys). Birth data for Kristine is available in 106 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (106 years for girls and 24 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kristine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kristine reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 86.1% percentile (ranked #104) with 1,888 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 1,995 births per million (ranked 86.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kristine ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 1.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kristine reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #635) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kristine".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Kristine", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 39 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Christine" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Christine..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kristine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.9% confident that Kristine is pronounced as krih-STEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KRIH-steen, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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