Kristiina

Girls' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Kristina

Kristiina has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1981, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Kristiina, 1986

1 in 711,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristiina: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Kristina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kristiina means

Kristiina belongs to the name family reached through Kristiina → Kristina → Christina → Chrīstiāna. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kristiina is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christina, Kristina and Chrīstiāna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Kristiina is pronounced /ˈkristiːnɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Kristiina between 1981 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1981; its best national rank was #11,237 in 1981.

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.

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How common is Kristiina?

Kristiina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986: 1 in 711,000; 5 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only: 1 in 343,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 493,068 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kristiina 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 1986 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 493,068 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristiina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristiinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristiina was born before 1981 — so the typical Kristiina is around 44 today.

Median birth year: 1981; About 44 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Kristiina 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 1981 (5)
Years since peak: 44; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,237; 1981

Spellings of Kristiina

Kristiina is not the most common spelling — Kristin is, with 38.0% against Kristiina's <0.01%.

Kristin38.0%179,313
Kristina29.0%136,765
Kristine17.9%84,329
Cristina11.1%52,428
Kristian1.4%6,820
Krystina1.0%4,819
Kristiana0.59%2,796
Khristina0.27%1,275

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.

Kristiina around the world

Where Kristiina 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
1996–1996
#712
in 1996

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

Kristiina 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: #11,237; 1981
Peak year: 1981; 5 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 1986
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kristiina

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

Sibling names for Kristiina

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

Shamika Fawn Joi Jessi Jenelle Charissa Latrice Sharonda

For a brother

Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Jamaal Wilfredo Antwan Donnell

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