Christiane

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Christiane: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Christiane: Recorded since 1960, it reached #256 in 1996, and it was last ranked in 2019.

2registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
60years from first to last
#256highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2010

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1998	#2407
1999	#3900
2002	#3409
2003	#3594
2004	#4598
2010	#4688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 46 of the 60 years from 1960 to 2019.

In 2010: #476 among girls in Norway, #4688 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1960–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1960
First recorded at #426 among girls in Norway in 1960 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1960–2019
Highest recorded position: #256 among girls in Norway, in 1996 (recorded 1960–2019).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #504 among girls in Norway, in 2019.
Norway · Girls

Christiane appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 46 years beginning in 1960, and has registered 384 births with the name.

Christiane across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Christiane's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#426 (1960)	#256 (1996)	#504 (2019)	46 of 60	384 (1960–2019)	18 (1993)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2407 (1998)	#4688 (2010)	7 of 15	28 (1996–2010)	6 (1998)

Christiane by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Christiane in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	26	5 of 10	5
1970s	26	5 of 10	5
1980s	58	8 of 10	7
1990sbusiest	133	10 of 10	13
2000s	99	10 of 10	10
2010s	42	8 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Christiane appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1960 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #256 in Norway in 1996.

Christiane's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#504	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#474	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#549	4	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#511	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#567	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#436	8	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#534	5	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#476	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#585	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#396	10	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#506	6	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#473	7	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#310	14	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#377	10	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#412	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#406	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#264	16	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#279	16	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#276	15	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#322	12	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#422	8	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#256	17	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#266	17	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#298	14	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#265	18	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#430	9	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#297	16	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#507	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#522	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#444	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#388	11	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#436	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#576	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#625	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#524	6	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#507	6	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#593	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#594	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#506	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#471	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#491	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#416	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#466	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#491	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#426	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1960 and 2019, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #256, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in Norway in 1993.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 36 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Christian · #7, 81y
Christiana · #443, 29y
Christiano · #730, 15y
Christie · #271, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Yonas · #258, 49y
Esben · #251, 47y
Karan · #246, 42y
Rut · #268, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Alessandro · #256, 31y
Aloysius · #256, 12y
Caimin · #256, 26y
Anastatia · #257, 11y

Christiane was ranked #256 in Norway · Girls in 1996. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Christiane and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Christiane without appearing here.

Christiane moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4598 and #1952 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.
Geraldine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4598 and #1836 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.
Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4598 and #1252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.
Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4598 and #2278 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.

Moved ahead of Christiane

Selma Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2444.
Zoe Compare
In 2012 they stood at #436 and #508 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #567 and #328.
Sophie Compare
In 1988 they stood at #444 and #542 in Norway · Girls; by 1989 that had become #522 and #297.
Martine Compare
In 1975 they stood at #471 and #591 in Norway · Girls; by 1976 that had become #594 and #381.

Moved the opposite way to Christiane

Lily Compare
Between 1994 and 2019 in Norway · Girls, Christiane went from #298 to #504 while Lily went from #642 to #135.
Ava Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in Norway · Girls, Christiane went from #276 to #504 while Ava went from #603 to #143.
Ellie Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in Norway · Girls, Christiane went from #310 to #504 while Ellie went from #491 to #50.
Freya Compare
Between 2005 and 2019 in Norway · Girls, Christiane went from #310 to #504 while Freya went from #326 to #149.

Moved the same way as Christiane

Katherine Compare
Between 1972 and 2001 in Norway · Girls, Christiane went from #506 to #264 and Katherine from #606 to #334.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1960 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #256 in Norway in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Christiane

Christiane at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Christiane across 2 official records

Christiane by decade in Norway · Girls

Christiane appears in

Popularity data

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Christiane at a glance

Christiane across 2 official records

Christiane by decade in Norway · Girls

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What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Christiane

Christiane and the names beside it

Christiane moved ahead of

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