Kristina
Kristina is a girl's name that peaked in 1985, when it was the 57th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,721st. About 131,000 Kristinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kristina boys named Kristina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 137,118
- Estimated living today
- 131,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1985
- Best rank
- 57th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,721st
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 136,765 / 353
How old the living Kristinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 137,118 babies given the name since 1915, about 131,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 5,500 of them are children and 3,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
A modern Scandinavian spelling variant of Christina.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kristinas
- Kristina Mladenovic (born 1993)French and Serbian tennis player
- Kristína Peláková (born 1987)Slovak singer
- Kristina Šmigun-Vähi (born 1977)Estonian cross-country skier and politician
- Kristina Orbakaitė (born 1971)Russian-Lithuanian singer and actress
- Kristina Söderbaum (1912–2001)Swedish-German actress, producer and photographer
- Kristina Vogel (born 1990)German track cyclist
- Kristina Pimenova (born 2005)Russian model
- Kristina Schröder (born 1977)German politician (CDU)
People named Kristina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kristina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kristina is most concentrated in Alaska (2.5×), Washington (1.9×), Oregon (1.8×), Nevada (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1985
The most popular girls’ names the year Kristina peaked:
Kristina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Kristina | 4,672 | 33rd |
| England and Wales girls | Kristina | 1,151 | 455th |
| France girls | Kristina | 1,050 | 1,241st |
| Switzerland girls | Kristina | 529 | 161st |
| Italy girls | Kristina | 523 | — |
| Scotland girls | Kristina | 303 | 196th |
| Ireland girls | Kristina | 178 | 213th |
| Sweden girls | Kristina | 175 | 85th |
| Belgium girls | Kristina | 164 | 657th |
| Poland girls | Kristina | 93 birth registrations | 360th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kristina | 17 | 351st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kristina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Kristina | 467 | 0.038% | 113th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Kristina | 40 | 0.009% | 282nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Kristina | 22 | 0.034% | 59th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Kristina is most concentrated in Solothurn, where 0.06% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Kristina: rank by region
In 2016, Kristina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kristina | 826 | 5 |
In 2025, Kristina was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Kristina | 326 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kristina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 10 | 428th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Kristina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Kristina | 2,072 | 11,847 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 11,847 who carry it, 2,072 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Kristina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,287 women called Kristina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Kristina | 296 | 0.288 | 357 |
| Gipuzkoa | Kristina | 105 | 0.280 | 412 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Kristina | 103 | 0.186 | 581 |
| Girona | Kristina | 73 | 0.176 | 535 |
| Almería | Kristina | 66 | 0.175 | 525 |
| Navarra | Kristina | 60 | 0.174 | 561 |
Listed in 36 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 16 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Kristina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.