Christin

Where Christin comes from

The dictionaries list Christin as a given name — a female given name from Swedish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Swedish
Along the way
  1. 1931
    First appearance
    #4,331 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Christin Cooper born
    alpine skier
  3. 1989
    Peak, #286
    926 babies named Christin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #614.
  5. 1994
    Christin Maurer born
    German athletics competitor
  6. 2022
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Swedish.
Namesakes
  • Christin Maurer · German athletics competitor, born 1994
  • Christin Cooper · alpine skier, born 1959
  • Christin Steuer · German diver, born 1983
  • Christin Senkel · German bobsledder, born 1987
  • Christin Muche · German bicycle racer, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.