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I really like it. My mom had a student in her class named that. Her parents were very classy and the girls (my mom had both daughters in class) were very well-mannered.

Christiana is lovely. I much prefer it to Christina or Christine. It's so much more interesting.

I have the rare distinction of having two great-grandmothers named Christiana! One of them used her name for her youngest daughter, but then it dropped off the family radar.

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Both these ladies were known as Chrissie, which I don't enjoy much. Christiana itself, with its echoes of Pilgrim's Progress, is beautiful and I might have considered it, at least as a mn, if I were religious. Since I'm not, it seems inappropriate.

I used to have a classmate named Christiana. I think it would be easy for other people to confuse it with Christina or other more common Chris- names, but I do like the sound of it. I think it's still usable.

I'm with Rox- I prefer Christina or Christine. Christiana is too flowery for my taste.

In Delaware, at least upstate, Christiana is a not uncommon name for things like schools, hospitals, malls. It's because of Queen Christina of Sweden, the Swedes being among the first Europeans to colonize Delaware.

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So to me, Christiana is more of a place name than a person's name. It's not unattractive, but I much prefer Christina.