Meaning of the nameCristiana

Female
Latin origin
Cris-ti-a-na

Cristiana is a feminine name of Latin origin, the feminine of Cristiano, from Medieval Latin Christianus, 'Christian', with a peak among people born in the 1970s and 1980s.

Meaning

“feminine form of Cristiano, from Latin Christianus, 'Christian'”

Source: Behind the Name: Christiana · Behind the Name: Christian · Wiktionary: Cristiano

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People (2022): 37,004
Rank in Brazil: #708
Median age: 41 years
2010 Census: 39,955; people

Cristiana in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Cristiana, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (15,567 people).

36,733 women 271 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Cristiana is most common

States with the highest share of people named Cristiana in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Alagoas 0.025%
Minas Gerais 0.025%
Bahia 0.024%
Paraíba 0.021%
Ceará 0.021%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	8,076	0.018%
Minas Gerais	5,025	0.025%
Bahia	3,403	0.024%
Rio de Janeiro	3,274	0.020%
Pernambuco	1,865	0.021%
Ceará	1,830	0.021%
Paraná	1,660	0.015%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,601	0.015%
Goiás	1,180	0.017%
Santa Catarina	1,106	0.015%
Paraíba	843	0.021%
Alagoas	795	0.025%
Pará	732	0.009%
Espírito Santo	663	0.017%
Maranhão	616	0.009%
Amazonas	594	0.015%
Mato Grosso	572	0.016%
Piauí	571	0.018%
Distrito Federal	552	0.020%
Rio Grande do Norte	489	0.015%
Sergipe	454	0.021%
Mato Grosso do Sul	452	0.016%
Rondônia	231	0.015%
Tocantins	163	0.011%
Acre	111	0.013%
Amapá	83	0.011%
Roraima	63	0.010%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Cristiana

Wiktionary records Cristiano in Portuguese as a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Chrīstiānus, from Chrīstus plus the suffix -iānus, and gives Cristiana as the feminine form. Behind the Name describes Christiana as the feminine Latin form of Christian, from Latin Christianus, 'Christian', and lists Cristiana among the Portuguese forms. The morpheme list of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil links the element Crist- to Latin Cristo, from Greek Khristós, 'anointed'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 37,004 people named Cristiana, with a median age of 41. The name is almost always female and, proportionally, it is most common in Alagoas.

Sources

Behind the Name: Christiana · behindthename.com · meaning
Behind the Name: Christian · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Cristiano · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Cristiana

What does the name Cristiana mean?

Cristiana means “feminine form of Cristiano, from Latin Christianus, 'Christian'”, according to Behind the Name and Wiktionary.

How many people are named Cristiana in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 37,004 people with the first name Cristiana, which ranks it number 708 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Cristiana a boy's or a girl's name?

Cristiana is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 36,733 women and 271 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Cristiana?

Cristiana is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Cristiana most common?

Proportionally, in Alagoas: 0.025% of the state's population is named Cristiana (795 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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