Christiane
Christiane was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 2,263 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Christiane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 35 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christiane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christiane mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Christiane is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Christian, equivalent to English Christiana”
/kʁis.tjan/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christiane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,804, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
87 babies in 1971, the peak
Christiane peaked in 1971, when 87 girls were given it, #1,266 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #13,804 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,000 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,201 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,904 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,368 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,025 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,226 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,729 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,357 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,665 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #10,969 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,666 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,181 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,589 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,020 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,364 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,405 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,617 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,245 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,104 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,155 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,830 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,849 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,680 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,240 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,121 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,343 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,418 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,646 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,882 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,599 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,036 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,567 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,810 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,525 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,079 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,059 | 29.5 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,935 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,495 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,952 | 33.0 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,920 | 33.3 |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,611 | 43.0 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,732 | 37.5 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,462 | 48.0 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,621 | 39.5 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,527 | 41.8 |
| 1972 | 73 | #1,368 | 48.0 |
| 1971 | 87 | #1,266 | 52.3 |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,708 | 30.9 |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,372 | 41.5 |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,595 | 31.7 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,756 | 26.0 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,603 | 29.0 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,002 | 19.3 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,111 | 16.9 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,881 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 34 | #1,997 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,927 | 17.8 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,894 | 17.8 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,741 | 19.8 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,122 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,355 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,110 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,599 | 21.0 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,081 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,529 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,029 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,491 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,131 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,347 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,636 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,462 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,072 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christiane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christiane has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 73 years of records.
Girls and boys named Christiane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christiane, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,263 Americans ever recorded as Christiane. The median Christiane alive today is 49 years old; half are between 35 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 4,630 people named Christiane (4,572 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 376 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 849 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 527 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 293 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39 |
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 Christiane born?
The states with the most babies named Christiane are California, New York and Texas, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 306 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Christiane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christiane is most over-represented in California: since 1946 it was given 1.2 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 Christiane 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 1,093,249 babies since 1880, Christiane is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 600 babies recorded by SSA was a Christiane (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 |
| Christianna | 3,141 | 14 | 2000 |
| Christiane | 2,263 | under 5 | 1971 |
| Christianne | 1,433 | under 5 | 1971 |
| Chrystine | 356 | under 5 | 1951 |
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 Christiane
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 Christiane and names like it
- Compare Christiane and ChristineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChristiane peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christiane since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Christiane: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Christiane.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christiane alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.