Christena
Recorded 1880–2021 · United States
Christena was most popular in 1975, when 50 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,908 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,844 people named Christena.
Christena over time
How old is the name Christena?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Christena is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 134 of the 146 years since.
How many people are named Christena?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,844 American births named Christena between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,475 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Christena in 2025?
Christena was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Christena getting more or less popular?
Christena is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 6 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Christena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Christena is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,844 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Christena?
Roughly 1,475 Americans named Christena are alive today — 52% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 39 and 65.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org