# Christiaan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/christiaan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 886 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 886 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 62, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 19 | 4,838 |
| 2008 | 17 | 5,290 |
| 2009 | 11 | 7,308 |
| 2010 | 10 | 7,688 |
| 2011 | 7 | 9,809 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,279 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,680 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,829 |
| 2015 | 8 | 8,899 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,010 |
| 2017 | 7 | 9,884 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,036 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9,938 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,091 |
| 2025 | 7 | 9,895 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2000 | 4 | 2,501 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2006 | 5 | 2,870 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,158 |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,036 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Christiaan

- Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
- Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician (1858–1930)
- Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, German mycologist (1761-1836)
- Christiaan de Wet, Boer general, rebel and politician (1854-1922)
- Christiaan Snouck, Dutch orientalist (1857–1936)
- Christiaan Cornelissen, Dutch economist (1864-1942)
- Cornelis Christiaan Berg, Dutch botanist (1934-2012)
- Christiaan Lindemans, Dutch double agent (1912-1946)
- Christiaan van Lennep, Dutch tennis player (1887–1955)
- Christiaan Varenhorst, Dutch volleyball player
- Christiaan Tonnis, German artist
- Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter (1911–1965)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.