Krystina
A rarer spelling of Krystyna, Greek at root: "one who belongs to Christ". Only about 157 women in Poland carry this form of the name, and no girl has been given it in years. Most Poles will never meet one.
Krystina Pronunciation
Krystina is pronounced krihs-TEE-nah (/krɨsˈtina/).
What Krystina means
Where Krystina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Krystina traces back to the Greek name for Christ, and it marks a person as his, a follower of Christ. Polish keeps this sense in two words, chrześcijanka and należąca do Chrystusa, one who belongs to Christ. The spelling most families reach for is Krystyna, with the y. Krystina holds the same root and the same meaning.
The short form Krysia does the daily work. On a birth certificate a girl is Krystyna. In the class register and to her friends she is Krysia.
One bearer fixes the name in Polish memory. Krystyna Krahelska, poet and folklorist, posed for the Syrenka, the mermaid statue that still stands on the Warsaw bank of the Vistula. She was also a medic, and she died of wounds during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The name carries her before it carries anything abstract. If you want the calendar, Krystyna keeps two name days in Poland, 13 March and 24 July, when a Krysia can expect flowers and a phone call. So the story runs from a Greek root meaning follower of Christ, through the everyday Krysia, to a real woman who answered to it.
How many people are named Krystina
1 in 143591 women in Poland is named Krystina. 157 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2575 among female names.
Krystina as a middle name
Krystina is a first name for 157 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1374th, between Gosia (27) and Latika (27).
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#1372 Ewa Maria27
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#1373 Gosia27
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#1374 Krystina27
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#1375 Latika27
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#1376 Maree27