Christine

Where Christine comes from

Borrowed from French Christine. Doublet of Christina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Christine
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Christine through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #153 among girls, with 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, its best rank.
  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.