Christine (name)
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Christine is a feminine name of Greek
or Latin origin. It is derived from the word Christ, which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word "Messiah
". As a French
variant of the Greek
name Christina, it is a name in regular usage in French
, English
, German
, Scandinavian
, Dutch
and Slavic cultures, and it is often associated with the meaning "follower of Christ." It is a popular name; for example, in 1968, it was the 14th most frequently-given name for girls in the United States
.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
or Latin origin. It is derived from the word Christ, which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word "Messiah
Messiah
A messiah is a redeemer figure expected or foretold in one form or another by a religion. Slightly more widely, a messiah is any redeemer figure. Messianic beliefs or theories generally relate to eschatological improvement of the state of humanity or the world, in other words the World to...
". As a French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
variant of the Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
name Christina, it is a name in regular usage in French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
, English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
, German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
, Scandinavian
Scandinavians
Scandinavians are a group of Germanic peoples, inhabiting Scandinavia and to a lesser extent countries associated with Scandinavia, and speaking Scandinavian languages. The group includes Danes, Norwegians and Swedes, and additionally the descendants of Scandinavian settlers such as the Icelandic...
, Dutch
Dutch people
The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...
and Slavic cultures, and it is often associated with the meaning "follower of Christ." It is a popular name; for example, in 1968, it was the 14th most frequently-given name for girls in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Sense and origin of the name
Generally, the name Christine is given in Christ's honor and in reference to Saint Christina of Tyr, remembered on the 24th of July. However, there are also many other Saint Christines, remembered on 6 February, 13 March for Christine of Persia, 24 March, 18 May for Christine of Ancyre, and 6 November.People with the given name Christine
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Saints
- Saint Christina of Bolsena, remembered on the 24th of July
- Saint Christine of PersiaSaint Christina of PersiaSaint Christina of Persia also Martyr Christina of Persia is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 6th century.Her feast day is on 13 March, and the Roman Martyrology describes her as follows: "In Persia, Saint Christina, martyr, who was flogged with rods and concluded the witness of martyrdom...
, remembered on the 13th of March - Saint Christine of Ancyre, remembered on the 18th of May
In government and politics
- Christine AdjobiChristine AdjobiDr. Christine Adjobi is an Ivorian politician and physician. A member of the Ivorian Popular Front , she is Minister for the Fight Against AIDS in the Ivorian government of Prime Minister Guillaume Soro. In 2002-2003, during the Ivorian Civil War, Dr. Adjobi was Delegate Minister in Charge of the...
, an Ivorian politician and physician - Christine AlbanelChristine AlbanelChristine Albanel is a French civil servant. From May 2007 to June 2009 she was France's Minister for Culture and Communication in François Fillon's government.Albanel is agrégé in classical Letters...
(born 1955), a French civil servant, former Minister for Culture and Communication - Christine ArguelloChristine ArguelloChristine Marie Arguello is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and is a former Colorado state official. Previously, she was a nominee to the U.S...
(born 1955), a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado - Christine BoutinChristine BoutinChristine Boutin is a French politician and a major Christian democratic figure in France. She served as a member of the French National Assembly representing Yvelines, from 1986 until 2007, when she was appointed Minister of Housing and Urban Development by President Nicolas Sarkozy...
(born 1944), French politician, former Minister of Housing and Urban Development,former representative of Yvelines - Christine A. VarneyChristine A. VarneyChristine A. Varney is an American lawyer lobbyist, and internet policy expert who served as personnel counsel for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. She is also a former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the United States Department of Justice...
(born 1955), Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the United States Department of Justice
In sports
- Christine Adams (athlete)Christine Adams (athlete)Christine Adams is a German pole vaulter. She won a silver medal at the 1996 European Indoor Championships and a bronze medal at the 2000 European Indoor Championships.Her personal best is 4.42 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Weissach...
(born 1974), a German pole vaulter - Christine AmertilChristine AmertilChristine Amertil is a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 400 metres. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University.- Achievements :*2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships - bronze medal...
(born 1979,) a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 400 metres - Christine Arron (born 1973), a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France
- Christine BeckChristine BeckChristine Beck is a German football Referee and former player.She played for women's Bundesliga team VfL Sindelfingen in the early 1990s before moving into officiating in 1999....
(born 1974), a German football referee and former player - Christine BoudriasChristine BoudriasChristine-Isabel Boudrias is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics and in the 1998 Winter Olympics....
(born 1972), a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1994 & 1998 Winter Olympics - Christine BrennanChristine BrennanChristine Brennan is an American sports columnist, TV and radio commentator, best-selling author and nationally-known speaker....
(born 1958), an American sports columnist, TV and radio commentator, and speaker - Christine CookChristine CookChristine Cook is a retired field hockey defender from England. She represented Hightown on club level, and competed for Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics, finishing in fourth place.-References:*...
(born 1970), retired field hockey defender from England - Christine SinclairChristine SinclairChristine Margaret Sinclair is a Canadian soccer forward who plays professional soccer for the Western New York Flash and is the captain of the Canadian national team. Sinclair has spent ten years with the Canadian national team participating in two World Cups in 2007 and 2003 and the 2008 Summer...
(born 1983), a Canadian football player who is currently a member of the Canadian National Soccer Tream
In entertainment
- Christine Adams (actress)Christine Adams (actress)Christine Adams is an English actress. She has made guest appearances in various television series and was a regular on ABC's The Whole Truth. She currently stars as Mira on FOX's Terra Nova.-Filmography:-External links:...
, an English actress - Christine AmorChristine AmorChristine Amor is an Australian actress mostly remembered for her television work.She has acted extensively in television guest roles and in Australian film starting in 1973. Film roles include Alvin Purple , Petersen , Snapshot...
(born 1952), an Australian actress - Christine AndreasChristine Andreas-Biography:BroadwayAndreas was born in Camden, New Jersey. She made her Broadway debut in a 1975 revival of Angel Street. The following year she was cast as Eliza Doolittle in the 20th Anniversary production of My Fair Lady, for which she received the Theatre World Award...
(born 1951), an American actress and singer - Christine AngotChristine AngotChristine Angot is a French writer, novelist and playwright.-Life:Born Pierrette, Marie-Clotilde Schwartz in Châteauroux, Indre, she is perhaps best known for her 1999 novel L'Inceste which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father.It is a subject which appears in several of her...
(born 1959), a French writer, novelist and playwright - Christine AnuChristine Anu-Early life:Anu was born in Cairns, Queensland to a Torres Strait Islander mother from Saibai and Mabuiag Islands.-Career:Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for The Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993...
(born 1970), an Australian pop singer - Christine ArnothyChristine ArnothyChristine Arnothy is a French writer. She has written numerous books, including J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir . It is a book following her life and escape from Budapest during the Second World War.She left Hungary, crossing the border with her parents...
(born 1930), a French writer - Christine AutenChristine AutenChristine McPeters Auten is an American voice actress, ADR Director, and ADR Script Writer who works for Funimation Entertainment and ADV Films...
(born 1969), an American voice actress and script-writer - Christine BaranskiChristine BaranskiChristine Jane Baranski is an American stage and screen actress, and is perhaps best known for her Emmy Award winning portrayal as "Maryanne Thorpe" in the sitcom Cybill, and her Emmy nominated portrayal of "Diane Lockhart" in The Good Wife...
(born 1952), an American stage and screen actress - Christine BleakleyChristine BleakleyChristine Louise Bleakley is a television presenter from Northern Ireland. She joined Daybreak on ITV as co-presenter with Adrian Chiles in September 2010...
(born 1979), a Northern Irish television presenter - Christine Beatty (activist)Christine Beatty (activist)Christine Beatty is a writer, musician and transgender activist. She is one of the first transsexual women to perform and record as a heavy metal musician .-Writer:...
(born 1958), an American writer, musician and transgender activist - Christine BottomleyChristine BottomleyChristine Bottomley is a British actress.She is best known for her regular roles as Melanie in the BBC comedy series Early Doors and Susie Ward in Heartbeat.-Life and career:...
(born 1979), a British actress - Christine BrewerChristine BrewerChristine Brewer is an American soprano. She grew up in the Mississippi River town of Grand Tower, Illinois. She attended McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois and concentrated on music education. She was a music teacher for several years before embarking on a professional music performing...
(born 1955), an American soprano - Christine Brooke-RoseChristine Brooke-RoseChristine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose is a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels.-Biography:...
(born 1923), a British writer and literary critic - Christine OckrentChristine OckrentChristine Ockrent is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television.Daughter of Belgian diplomat Charles Ockrent, she was born in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1965. She worked for American television and...
(born 1944), Belgian journalist and presenter of French television
Fictional characters
- Christine ApplebyChristine ApplebyChristine Appleby is a fictional character from the UK television ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She was played by actress Christine Hargreaves between 1960 and 1963.-Casting:...
, a character from the UK television ITV soap opera Coronation Street - Christine BlairChristine BlairChristine Marie Ellen "Cricket" Blair is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed since July 1983 by Lauralee Bell...
, a character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless - Christine Campbell (character), the title character of The New Adventures of Old Christine
- Christine Carpenter, a minor character in the soap opera Hollyoaks
- Christine ChapelChristine ChapelChristine Chapel is a fictional character in the original Star Trek series, and in some of the films based on it. She was played by the late Majel Barrett....
, a character in the original Star Trek series and related films - Christine DaaeChristine DaaéChristine Daaé is the main female character in Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera , the young singer with whom the main character Erik, the Phantom of the Opera falls in love.- Character history :...
, the female lead in The Phantom of the Opera - Christine "Spike" Nelson, character from Degrassi: The Next GenerationDegrassi: The Next GenerationDegrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
- Christine Penmark, a character in William March's novel The Bad SeedThe Bad SeedThe Bad Seed is a 1954 novel by William March, nominated for the 1966 National Book Award for Fiction. It was the last major work written by March, and, although published in his lifetime, its enormous critical and commercial success was largely realized after his death, one month after publication...
- Christine Weiring, the title character of the 1958 film ChristineChristine (1958 film)Christine is a 1958 film, based on the novel Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler. The film was directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and the title character was played by Romy Schneider...
- Christine, a character in Toni Morrison's novel LoveLove (Toni Morrison novel)Love is the eighth novel by Toni Morrison. In her non-linear style, the lives of several women and their relationships to the late Bill Cosey unfold....
- ChristineChristineChristine is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces...
is a novel by Stephen KingStephen KingStephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
and a film titled Christine is based on the novel.