Cristina
A Latin name meaning "follower of Christ", the Spanish and Italian counterpart to Polish Krystyna. Only about 1,100 women in Poland carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Cristina Pronunciation
Cristina is pronounced tsrees-TEE-nah (/t͡srisˈtina/).
What Cristina means
Where Cristina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cristina descends from the Latin Christiana, the feminine of Christianus. Its meaning is plain: a follower of Christ. The name spread across the Latin-speaking world and settled most firmly in Spain and Italy, where the spelling without an h, Cristina, became the everyday form.
Because the meaning sits close to the surface, the name announced faith without translation. Medieval calendars gave it a saint, Christina of Bolsena, and her feast fixed a name-day that Spanish and Italian families still keep. To carry the name was to be counted in the Christian household.
Fill in Cristina on a form at the urząd and the Latin root shows through the spelling; the Polish cousin on the same page is Krystyna. The two forms share one grandmother.
In Polish the sense lands as chrześcijanka, należąca do Chrystusa.
How many people are named Cristina
1 in 20110 women in Poland is named Cristina. 1,123 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #908 among female names.
Cristina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Cristina is most popular
Cristina is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%
Cristina as a middle name
Cristina is a first name for 1,123 women in Poland and a middle name for another 505, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 310th, between Mira (507) and Larysa (499).
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#308 Jarosława542
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#309 Mira507
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#310 Cristina505
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#311 Larysa499
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#312 Gabryela497