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Cristiano

#1,288 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Christian

Cristiano has been given to 3,898 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,288 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 267 recorded.

Babies named Cristiano, 2025

1 in 21,800

Cristiano over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cristiano: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cristiano means

Cristiano is a form of Christian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Cristiano is a form of Christian. Christian has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Cristiano is used in Italian and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christian and Cristian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Cristiano is pronounced /krisˈtja.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,898 boys were recorded with the name Cristiano between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 267 in 2015; its best national rank was #841 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,077 in 2020 to #1,288 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #841 in 2015 to #1,288 in 2025.

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 Cristiano?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,800
152 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,288
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,119 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cristiano sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,119 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cristiano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cristianos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cristiano was born before 2016 — so the typical Cristiano is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,898
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (2,246).

Is Cristiano 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
−159
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−211
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−447
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.9%
Peak was 2015 (267)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#841
2015

Spellings of Cristiano

Cristiano is not the most common spelling — Christian is, with 81.2% against Cristiano's 0.70%.

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 Cristiano is used

Across 2016–2025, Cristiano was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 7,830 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

128 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,571
  2. 2California1 in 5,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 5,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 5,263
  5. 5New York1 in 5,882
  6. 6Texas1 in 5,882
  7. 7Arizona1 in 6,667
  8. 8Florida1 in 6,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Cristiano around the world

Where Cristiano 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #1,998
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #916
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1972–2012
    #316
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Cristiano

People whose public names include Cristiano, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cristiano in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cristiano. Linked forms have their own page here.

CrisCristianCristinoKristianKristjanKrystianChristianChrystianKristianoKristijanChristiaanChristianoChrétienCristiánKristiánKristiānsKrisztiánChristianus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cristiano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,288
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 211
Best rank ever
#841
2015
Peak year
2015
267 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,898
Count in 2025
152

Names similar to Cristiano

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

CristoferCristobalCristhianFelicianoCristopherCristovalCrispinCiprianoGaetanoSeverianoStefanoAurelianoVictorianoMarcianoAdrianoSebastianoCristoGiulianoCrimsonChristianoCrisantoCristianCayetanoMariano

Names with a curve like Cristiano

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

KamdynGraysenMaxtonBreckenKorbynMaisonCamdynRayyanGreysenJoziahDeklanRylen

Sibling names for Cristiano

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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