Christena
Christena is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 425th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197550 births
- Best rank
- #425in 1886
- Since 1880
- 2,844people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,844 girls have been named Christena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 50 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 50 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1980s alone account for 12%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Christena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 167 | |
| 1890s | 200 | |
| 1900s | 144 | |
| 1910s | 278 | |
| 1920s | 274 | |
| 1930s | 175 | |
| 1940s | 209 | |
| 1950s | 213 | |
| 1960s | 227 | |
| 1970s | 330 | |
| 1980s | 336 | |
| 1990s | 179 | |
| 2000s | 82 | |
| 2010s | 24 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Christena was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Christena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Theresiapeak 1959
- Lurapeak 1917
- Jenniepeak 1917
- Dorapeak 1921
- Edapeak 1916
- Eugeniepeak 1920
- Deliapeak 1957
- Molliepeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.