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Christine

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Christine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 197 births. Its best rank was 14th, in 1967–1970.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1970.01% of girls
Peak year
195217,548 births
Best rank
#14first in 1967
Since 1880
588,308people given the name
Babies named Christine, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

586,277 girls have been named Christine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 17,548 births — 0.95% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 197 births in 2024, against 17,548 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 140 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 52 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,031 boys have also been given it, 0.35% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Christine
1880s1,266
1890s2,565
1900s3,901
1910s14,094
1920s22,334
1930s18,488
1940s54,563
1950s113,340
1960s139,339
1970s103,237
1980s68,015
1990s31,618
2000s8,702
2010s3,730
2020s1,085

In 1952, its biggest year

Christine was the 20th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1952 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1952.

Names that rose and fell with Christine

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.