Cristiano
Cristiano was given to 152 boys in 2025, #1,288 among boys’ names; 3,898 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Cristiano and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristiano by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cristiano mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Cristiano is “a male given name, equivalent to English Christian”
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Chrīstiānus, from Latin Chrīstus + -iānus. Doublet of Cristian, cristão, and cretino.
/kɾis.t͡ʃiˈɐ̃.nu/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cristiano?
#1,288 among boys’ names, 2025
Cristiano fell from #841 in 2015 to #1,288 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.14 to 0.09 per 1,000.
267 babies in 2015, the peak
Cristiano peaked in 2015, when 267 boys were given it, #841 among boys’ names. The 152 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 152 | #1,288 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 188 | #1,129 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,144 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 213 | #1,037 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 176 | #1,144 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 185 | #1,077 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 204 | #1,018 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 224 | #936 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 255 | #856 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 264 | #849 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 267 | #841 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 247 | #877 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 209 | #956 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 186 | #1,038 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 201 | #979 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,024 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 138 | #1,274 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 120 | #1,409 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 79 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,038 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,465 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,345 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,452 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,090 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,334 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,122 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,234 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,603 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,128 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,091 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,600 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,138 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristiano a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristiano has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cristiano: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristiano, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,898 Americans ever recorded as Cristiano. The median Cristiano alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,962 people named Cristiano (12 women and girls, 2,950 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,824 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 46 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,750 |
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 Cristiano born?
The states with the most babies named Cristiano are California, Texas and Florida, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 31 | #800 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,177 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,071 | 1.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,446 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #846 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,048 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,014 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 6 | #862 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 5 | #875 | 0.8× |
Where Cristiano is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristiano is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1989 it was given 1.7 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 boys’ 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 Cristiano 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,156 babies since 1880, Cristiano is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 152 of their 171 babies (89%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cristiano | 3,898 | 152 | 2015 |
| Christiano | 853 | 19 | 2014 |
| Cristino | 332 | under 5 | 1993 |
| Kristiano | 73 | under 5 | 2016 |
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 Cristiano
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 Cristiano and names like it
- Compare Cristiano and ChristianoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCristiano peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristiano since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Cristiano: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Cristiano.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cristiano alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.