Name

Name CHRISTA

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 41,722 births of Christa in the countries below, which represents an average of 294 births of children bearing the first name Christa per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 1,004 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Christa
In Italiano

Nome Christa

Variation : Christy

Information about the first name Christa

The first name Christa has been assigned to:

0.00% to boys
100.00% to girls

The country where the first name Christa is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 7 letters including 2 vowels and 5 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Christa

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Christa : Cristha, Ischtar, Ritasch, Tricsha, Trischa

Christa in Japanese ^*

Romaji	kurisuta
Katakana	クリスタ
Hiragana	くりすた
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Christa in sign language

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Christa in binary language

01100011 01101000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001

Origin and meaning of name Christa

English

Etymology

Contraction of Christina and Christiana. Rare until the second half of the 20th century, reinforced by the German Christa.

Alternative forms

Krista

Proper noun

Christa
A female given name from Ancient Greek.

General

Anagrams

archist

Proper noun (Usage notes)

Popular in Germany in the 1930s and the 1940s.

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from German Christa, where it is a shortening of Christina and Christiane.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈkrɪs.taː/
Hyphenation: Chris‧ta

Proper noun

Christa f
a female given name

Proper noun (Related terms)

Christina
Christine

Danish

Proper noun

Christa
a female given name borrowed from German Christa

German

Etymology

Short form of Christiane and Christina. Popularized through 19th century German literature.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈkʁɪsta/

Popularity of the name Christa

Number of CHRISTA births per year

Popularity of the name Christa

Total births of Christa by country

		Births with the first name Christa
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	0 29,286
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	0 5,050
	Germany 2000 - 2022	0 3,328
	Ontario 1913 - 2019	0 1,163
	France 1900 - 2022	0 1,102
	Austria 1984 - 2021	0 434
	British Columbia 1919 - 2022	0 373
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	0 238
	Denmark 1985 - 2022	0 156
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	0 150
	Czechoslovakia 1900 - 2016	0 132
	Brazil 1930 - 2022	0 120
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	0 76
	Italy 1999 - 2021	0 37
	Australia 1930 - 2022	0 32
	Argentina 1922 - 2015	0 14
	New Zealand 1900 - 2022	0 13
	Sweden 1998 - 2022	0 10
	Chili 2010 - 2021	0 5
	Ireland 1964 - 2022	0 3

Popularity of the name Christa

Total births of Christa by country (last available year)

		Births with the first name Christa
Country		Boys Girls
	Germany 2022	0 994
	Quebec 2022	0 3
	France 2022	0 3
	Austria 2021	0 2
	Switzerland 2021	0 1
	Denmark 2022	0 1

Comments on the name Christa

Personalities with the first name Christa

There are 45 personalities with the first name Christa

Brooke Shields (Brooke Christa Camille Shields)

United states of america
Film actor Writer Stage actor Model Children's writer Television actor

Christa Wolf (Christa Ihlenfeld)

Germany German democratic republic
Screenwriter Writer Politician Unofficial collaborator Author Essayist Science fiction writer Journalist Literary critic Critic Novelist