Being named Christine

[InSearchOfMartin]

Do you think it is old fashioned? I don't know any others around my sort of age (other than Christine Lampard) and I (might be imagining it because I am sensitive) see people do a double take when I'm introduced. All the Christines I know in real life are minimum pension age at least.

I don't like Chris as it makes me feel like people think I'm a guy and I don't like Chrissy either as I feel silly.

I think it’s a nice name OP. I have never thought of it as unusual or of a particular age, there were a few at my school (not people born in the 50s!).

Ha I was thinking the same. Replace Joanne with Jane and literally every name there was in my primary school class of the 60s.

Or junior school as we called it then.

I know a 16 year old Christine who uses chrissy and an 18 year old Christina . I do know what you mean thoigh.

recently came across a young Pamela which was unusual.

@Dottiespotty Well now you mention it I came across a Pamela earlier this year who was born in 1995. I'd forgotten that.

I know three around your age, one goes by Christie, that could be an option for you if you don’t like Tina or Chris which are the names the other two go by.

InSearchOfMartin · Today 08:54

Well now you mention it I came across a Pamela earlier this year who was born in 1995. I'd forgotten that.

4 of the guests at my wedding were called Pam, 2 aunts, one great aunt and a friend's mother. 2008.

I think, it's a lovely name but then I also like the short form chris. In the country I grew up in it's still a very popular girl's name. I don't think it's old fashioned at all.

Im 62, there were 4 in my primary school class, and it's very popular in my aqua class . Most people shorten it to Chris but my DM called me Chrissy
I do know one Christine in her late 20s, same age as my dc.

I'm in my 70s, in my Primary School there were two of us with exactly the same name so we were called No 1 and No 2!
When I was married we came over for a visit and my dad said that 'some bloke' had been ringing their number, asking for Christine. This puzzled me then he rang when I was there, when I answered the phone and confirmed my name he sounded puzzled saying he'd met me in a club a couple of weeks earlier and had looked up numbers with my surname! I explained what I thought had happened but I didn't know where No 1 lived or her number!

The only Christine I know is in her late 50's but I do know a few baby Cristina's in Spain.