Christine

Where Christine comes from

Borrowed from French Christine. Doublet of Christina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Christine
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #153 among girls — 89 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1952
    Christine Baranski born
    American actress
  3. 1956
    Christine Lagarde born
    President of the European Central Bank
  4. 1969
    Peak, #14
    16,752 babies named Christine — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #26.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Christine Lagarde · President of the European Central Bank, born 1956
  • Christine de Pizan · French poet and author, died 1430
  • Christine Baranski · American actress, born 1952
  • Christine Nöstlinger · Austrian children's and young adult's writer, 1936–2018
  • Christine Sinclair · Canadian association football player, 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.