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Christene

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Christene has been given to 4,916 babies in the U.S. since 1888. 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 1925, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Christene, 2009

1 in 764,000

Christene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christene: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christene means

Christene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Christene is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,916 girls were recorded with the name Christene between 1888 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 118 in 1925; its best national rank was #632 in 1934.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Christene?

Christene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Christene 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christene was born before 1943 — so the typical Christene is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,018
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1920s — 17.8% of all recorded uses (876).

Is Christene 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (118)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#632
1934

Spellings of Christene

Christene is not the most common spelling — Christine is, with 50.4% against Christene's 0.42%.

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 Christene is used

Across 1910–2025, Christene was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 44,929 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 5,556
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 11,111
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Georgia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 33,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 33,333

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. Christene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christene around the world

Where Christene 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.

  • South Australia
    1945–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Christene 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
#632
1934
Peak year
1925
118 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
4,916
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Christene

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

ChristianChristalChristianaChrissyChristenChristenaChristeenChrystalChristiannaMagdaleneChristynChristelleChristelChrislynnChristabelChristellaChrislynChristianeKayleneChristinSharleneRayleneChristieAdilene

Names with a curve like Christene

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Christene, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DonaldHortenciaHerminiaEdwardLavonCharlineDarlineBillyDeloraRaymondErnestinaWanita

Sibling names for Christene

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

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