Entry № 2190 · Italian origin

Cristina Cristina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ krees-TEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Follower of Christ (Italian Christine)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "follower of christ (italian christine)".

Cristina is the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of Christine — from the Latin Christiana, meaning "follower of Christ." Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) was the famous monarch who abdicated and converted to Catholicism.

Cristina Saralegui (born 1948) is the Cuban-American TV host known as the "Latin Oprah."

Follower of Christ. Queen Christina of Sweden.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Cristina stands.

Cristina 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.

Cristinas before her.

Real people
Cristina Saralegui
Cuban-American TV host.
born 1948
Cristina Yang
Character in Grey's Anatomy.
In fiction
Cristina Yang
Character in Grey's Anatomy.
ABC, 2005

Names connected to Cristina.

The number behind Cristina.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cristina reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.