Christena
Christena was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 2,844 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Christena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 39 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,850, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1975, the peak
Christena peaked in 1975, when 50 girls were given it, #1,842 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #13,850 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,976 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,378 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,232 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,382 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,968 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,218 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,898 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,588 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,918 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (134)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #12,680 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,399 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,777 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,929 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,687 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,489 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,547 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,247 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,260 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,524 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,534 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,097 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,921 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,069 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,098 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,388 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,315 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,845 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,534 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,614 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,162 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,315 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,431 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,804 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,842 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,630 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,359 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,611 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,116 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,720 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,407 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,612 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,478 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,913 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,394 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,048 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,944 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,412 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,080 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,307 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,254 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,763 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,707 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,864 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,003 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,243 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,037 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,990 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,592 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,893 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,220 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,913 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,553 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,152 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 40 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 30 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,467 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 18 | #857 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 20 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 15 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 18 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 19 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 22 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 13 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 21 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 17 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 21 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 23 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 22 | #595 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 18 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 24 | #539 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 20 | #572 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 18 | #594 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 22 | #476 | 0.15 |
| 1886 | 26 | #425 | 0.18 |
| 1885 | 23 | #440 | 0.17 |
| 1884 | 11 | #644 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 9 | #655 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 14 | #495 | 0.13 |
| 1881 | 11 | #514 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 13 | #472 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 134 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christena, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 51% of the 2,844 Americans ever recorded as Christena. The median Christena alive today is 50 years old; half are between 39 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,592 people named Christena (1,589 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 91 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 325 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 453 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 431 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 133 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,091,171 babies since 1880, Christena is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 586 babies recorded by SSA was a Christena (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christine | 588,495 | 176 | 1952 |
| Christina | 481,707 | 352 | 1985 |
| Christiana | 10,938 | 58 | 1996 |
| Christene | 4,916 | under 5 | 1925 |
| Christena | 2,844 | under 5 | 1975 |
| Christinia | 1,283 | under 5 | 1979 |
| Chrystina | 595 | under 5 | 1991 |
| Christyna | 393 | under 5 | 1985 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Christena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Christena and names like it
- Compare Christena and ChristineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChristena peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christena since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Christena.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christena alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.