Christella
#9,587 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Christella has been given to 749 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #9,587 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Christella, 2025
1 in 332,000
Christella over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Christella?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,587
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Christella sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Christellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Christella was born before 1965 — so the typical Christella is around 60 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 16.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 567
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 16.0% of all recorded uses (120).
Is Christella 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
- +6,185
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +857
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,029
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.77×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 55.6%
- Peak was 1973 (18)
- Years since peak
- 52
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.7% average annual change
Spellings of Christella
Christella is not the most common spelling — Christel is, with 41.1% against Christella's 8.3%.
- Christel41.1%3,712
- Christena31.5%2,844
- Christelle12.1%1,096
- Christella8.3%749
- Cristela6.9%623
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 Christella is used
Across 1910–2025, Christella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 504,866 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Christella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Christella around the world
Where Christella 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.
- France1968–2025#5,923in 2025
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Christella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Christella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Christella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.