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How popular is the name Christine?

Births per year, rank history and how many Christines are alive today.

Christine (female), once a common girls' name, is now rarely given to new babies in England and Wales: just 18 in 2025, ranked 1639th. The name peaked in 1944, when around 13,900 babies were given the name, the 3rd most popular that year. It has declined since 1944; the 2025 figure is roughly 1% of its peak. At least 290,000 babies have been named Christine in England and Wales since 1924. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Common short forms of Christine include Tina.

The Christine you are most likely to meet is around 79 years old. Half of all Christines born in England and Wales are between 69 and 81, and there are at least 220,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 50% chance that at least one of them will be called Christine.

How many babies are named Christine each year?

Where does Christine rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.