Entry № 2035 · Latin origin

Christina Christina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kris-TEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Follower of Christ (Christina Rossetti; Queen Christina of Sweden)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "follower of christ (christina rossetti; queen christina of sweden)".

Christina is the Latin feminine of Christianus — "follower of Christ." Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) — inherited the Swedish throne at age 6, abdicated at 27 to convert to Roman Catholicism, and lived the rest of her life in Rome as patron of artists and philosophers including Descartes (who died of pneumonia teaching her in cold Stockholm).

Subject of Greta Garbo's Queen Christina (1933 film).

Follower of Christ.

The name in its native script.

Christina
Transliteration
Christina
Pronunciation
/ krɪsˈtiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Christina stands.

Christina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Christinas before her.

Real people
Queen Christina of Sweden
Queen of Sweden.
1626 – 1689
Christina Rossetti
English poet.
1830 – 1894
Christina Aguilera
American pop singer.
born 1980
In fiction
Christina
Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World.
1948

Names connected to Christina.

The number behind Christina.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Christina reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.