Christiana
Christiana was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,907 among girls’ names; 10,938 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,400 Americans named Christiana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christiana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christiana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Christiana is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
From Latin Chrīstiāna; a medieval literate form of the female name Christian. By surface analysis, Christian + -a.
/ˈkɹɪs.tiˌænə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christiana?
#2,907 among girls’ names, 2025
Christiana fell from #1,270 in 2015 to #2,907 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.04 per 1,000.
309 babies in 1996, the peak
Christiana peaked in 1996, when 309 girls were given it, #699 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,907 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,239 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,200 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,069 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,071 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,784 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,615 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 163 | #1,380 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 184 | #1,283 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 193 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 192 | #1,270 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 169 | #1,373 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 179 | #1,311 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 219 | #1,125 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 176 | #1,325 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 221 | #1,116 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,095 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,171 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 244 | #1,077 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 257 | #1,005 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 245 | #995 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 258 | #934 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 261 | #911 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 269 | #857 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 262 | #874 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 274 | #823 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 290 | #764 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 295 | #740 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 286 | #746 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 309 | #699 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 296 | #706 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 285 | #730 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 259 | #788 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 284 | #743 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 281 | #740 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 233 | #844 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 186 | #948 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 155 | #1,036 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 154 | #1,010 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 153 | #1,006 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 128 | #1,130 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 140 | #1,020 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 128 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 144 | #1,020 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 112 | #1,184 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 114 | #1,179 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 129 | #1,070 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 110 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 110 | #1,147 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 95 | #1,194 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 107 | #1,095 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 88 | #1,241 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,255 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 79 | #1,294 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,518 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,529 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 76 | #1,292 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 66 | #1,377 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,584 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,673 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,155 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,023 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,472 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,462 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,212 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,187 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,080 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,417 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,263 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,427 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,176 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,925 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,261 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,848 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,292 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,151 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,092 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,523 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,709 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,411 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,527 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,187 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,689 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,183 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,002 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,469 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,626 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 8 | #874 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 7 | #913 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 6 | #830 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christiana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christiana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 118 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christiana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christiana, and how old are they?
10,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 10,938 Americans ever recorded as Christiana. The median Christiana alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 11,997 people named Christiana (11,972 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,013 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 291 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
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).
Where are babies named Christiana born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,945 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,580 | 1.0× |
Where Christiana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christiana is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1910 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Christiana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,092,104 babies since 1880, Christiana is the third most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 600 babies (9.7%), again the third most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christine | 588,495 | 176 | 1952 |
| Christina | 481,707 | 352 | 1985 |
| Christiana | 10,938 | 58 | 1996 |
| Christianna | 3,141 | 14 | 2000 |
| Christena | 2,844 | under 5 | 1975 |
| Christiane | 2,263 | under 5 | 1971 |
| Christianne | 1,433 | under 5 | 1971 |
| Christinia | 1,283 | under 5 | 1979 |
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 Christiana
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 Christiana and names like it
- Compare Christiana and ChristineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChristiana peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christiana since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Christiana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Christiana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Christiana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.