Brief summary of your name - Cristina
Your first name of Cristina has made you a friendly, approachable, and generous person. Generally you are good-natured, though at times you can be blunt and sarcastic. As you are naturally talkative, you find it easy to meet and make friends with many people. This name inclines you to be sympathetic and generous to those in difficult or unfortunate circumstances. You can be firm, positive, and independent in your own ideas and in reaching your own decisions, yet when it comes to taking action or following things through to completion, you often need encouragement. You respond quickly to kind words or any appreciation shown you. There are artistic, creative abilities in this name that you could express through music or singing, or, in a practical way, through sewing or interior decorating.- Kabalarian Philosophy.

1. What does your first name (Cristina) mean?
Feminine form of CHRISTIAN. This was the name of a Swedish queen of the 17th century who was interested in the arts and philosophy. She gave up her crown to become a Roman Catholic.

2. What does your middle name (Maria) mean?
Latinate form of MARY. This was the name of several queens of Portugal. It was also borne by the 18th-century Habsburg queen Maria Theresa, whose inheritance of the domains of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, began the War of the Austrian Succession.

3. What does your name mean when put together?
Well for the first two it’s Christian Mary…

4. Who were you named after?
I was named after Cristina Ferrare.

5. What would you have been named if you were the opposite gender?
Anthony Joseph. After my dad and his dad.

6. Any other name oddities?
I have been called Criscringle, Crispringle, C-Dawg, Prissy Crissy, Cena, Cena Baby, Cena Marie, Cena Maria, Cena Tina, Clambake, and The Knight Bus Girl.

7. Do you like your name?
Yes.

8. What do you like best about it?
It’s not a common name so I could be the only Cristina in a classroom and feel special.

9. What do you like least about it?
I hate that people don’t bother to pay attention that my name has no ‘h’ in it, yet they will make certain they spell my last name correctly. Hello! I’m Italian! There is a reason why my name is spelled the way it is!

10. If you HAD to change your name (witness protection program, whatever), what would you want it to be?
It would either have to be Michelle or Isabel. But now that you know I’d probably have to change it to something else.