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I prefer it to Christine, mostly because I don't usually like -ine or -een namesm with the exception of Justine for some reason. But I'd never use it, not being even slightly Christian myself.

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Both my maternal great-grandmothers were named Christiana. Apparently people where they lived were likely to have read "A Pilgrim's Progress" and used it as a name source, the main characters being Christian and Christiana! If only they'd been named something else, Alice or Emily or Mary or something, I'd gladly have used it to honour the old darlings, but Christiana is a bridge too far.