Girl
Christa
As a girl's name, Christa is understood to mean "follower of Christ". It had its heyday in the 1970s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Since 1900, roughly 32,633 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
EtymologyShort for Christine
EtymologyMeaning "follower of Christ"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
60
1920s
104
1930s
163
1940s
391
1950s
1,298
1960s
3,280
1970s
10,407
1980s
8,682
1990s
5,471
2000s
2,190
2010s
587
Peaked in the 1970s · 32,633 total U.S. births since 1900