Entry № 2036 · French origin

Christine Christine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kris-TEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Follower of Christ (Christine Lagarde, ECB president)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "follower of christ (christine lagarde, ecb president)".

Christine is the French feminine of Christian — from the Greek christianos (follower of Christ). Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) — Italian-French author whose The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) is among the earliest works of feminist literature in European history.

Subject of countless ECB and IMF profiles.

Follower of Christ.

The name in its native script.

Christine
Transliteration
Christine
Pronunciation
/ krɪsˈtiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Christine stands.

Christine 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.

Christines before her.

Real people
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank.
born 1956
Christine de Pizan
Italian-French author.
1364 – 1430
Christine Baranski
American actress.
born 1952
In fiction
Christine
The Phantom of the Opera.
1910

Names connected to Christine.

The number behind Christine.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Christine reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.