Christela
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Meaning
“Haitian Creole coined name built on Christ; precise meaning uncertain”
How popular is Christela around the world?
In the United States, Christela is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. At the 2022 census, 25 people in Brazil were named Christela, ranked 106,978th, with a median age of 29.
Christela is on the official records of Brazil.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Christela is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Christela appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 25 people in Brazil were named Christela, ranked 106,978th, with a median age of 29.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Christela deep dive
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