Christabella

Girls' name

Latinate form of Christabel

Christabella has been given to 215 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Christabella, 2022

1 in 677,000

Christabella over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christabella: meaning, origin, and history

Latinate form of Christabel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christabella means

Christabella is a latinate form of Christabel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Christabella is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /kɹɪs.tə.ˈbɛl.ə/ for Christabella.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Christabella → Christabel. The family’s meaning is “Christ + beauty”, recorded in English with the source elements Crist and -bel.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Christ + -bella, by analogy to Isabella and Arabella.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Christabella (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Christabella is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christabel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 215 girls were recorded with the name Christabella between 1997 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2014; its best national rank was #6,472 in 2016.

How common is Christabella?

Christabella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Christabella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christabella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christabellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christabella was born before 2014 — so the typical Christabella is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 65.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 97.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 215; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 65.1% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Christabella rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2014 (19)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,472; 2016

Spellings of Christabella

Christabella is not the most common spelling — Christabel is, with 45.2% against Christabella's 12.2%.

Christabel45.2%795
Christella42.6%749
Christabella12.2%215

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Christabella is used

Across 1910–2025, Christabella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Christabella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christabella around the world

Where Christabella ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2025–2025
#5,927
in 2025
South Australia
1998–1998
#710
in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Christabella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,472; 2016
Peak year: 2014; 19 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 215
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Christabella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Christabella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Honesty Elayna Alaysia Montserrat Amia Priya Adilene Yamileth

For a brother

Jai Vihaan Gannon Anders Branson Korbin Abdullah Gibson

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