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Also Guernésiais: http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/590676737.pdf
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Also Flemish and French (Belgian): http://www.names.be/meisjesnamen.html?met=Christine&sort=beldesc
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Also Afrikaans: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Barkhuizen_le_Roux
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You'll find bearers on social media.
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Hello. I am a Boomer named Christine. Back when I was in elementary school throughout the 1960’s, I was the ONLY Christine in the class, and our classes were huge! I was surrounded by girls named Kathy, Mary, Susie, Sally, Patty, Barbie, Debbie, Judy, Nancy, Peggy, etc. You get the point. I always wanted a simple name that ended with a Y like all my friends. I was elated when one of my aunts told me I could be called Chrissy or Christy. My best friend was named Stephanie, also the only one in our class or even our school. Perhaps we became friends because of our odd names. To those who say Christine is a common name, it most definitely was NOT in the 1960’s and 1970’s when I was a child and a teenager. However, I now see that all those Debbies and Judys and Pattys I knew in school secretly liked MY name because when they grew up, they named their daughters Christine. You can see that by the surge in popularity of the name 20-30 years after I was a kid in school. For me, it was a family name, and I was named after my Grandmother. So was a cousin. I named my daughter Christina, as did other family members with their daughters. On the male side, many family members named their sons Michael, after our Grandfather. Growing up I knew I had a unique name from being in school and because all adults commented on my having “oh, such a pretty name”. But as a child? I only wanted one of the regular, more common girls’ name of the era to fit in with my friends and classmates. Two other uniquely-named girls in my class for the era were a Bridget and a Monica.
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In 2018, 41 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Christine who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 84th most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
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The name Christine is French, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch.
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The name Christine was given to 388 girls born in the US in 2016.
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Christine are female.
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More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Christine are female.
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I was born when it was in the 96% range and every class I had contained at least one other Christine (or variant) and a couple Christophers. Sometimes even the initial system didn't work because half of us had the middle name Marie (no, I'm not Canadian). I always liked it, I just wish it hadn't been SO popular.
My pet theory on its recent decline is that many people don't want to wear their religion on their sleeves these days - and one can't be any more obvious than Christine Marie. In my case it was a family name, handed down for hundreds of years.
I only beg one thing: spell it with a K if you must, but don't get creative with it. No one needs to be named Khrystyne. Ugh!
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My pet theory on its recent decline is that many people don't want to wear their religion on their sleeves these days - and one can't be any more obvious than Christine Marie. In my case it was a family name, handed down for hundreds of years.
I only beg one thing: spell it with a K if you must, but don't get creative with it. No one needs to be named Khrystyne. Ugh!
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Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_(name)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Michael