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Well, Christine is my real name, so I am obviously quite attached to it. I didn't like it when I was a kid, because I was surrounded by girls with punchy 80s names like Marnie, Callie, Jenna, Amy, Erin etc. I made a brief attempt in late childhood to be called Chrissi but it didn't stick. As a teenager I went by Chris a lot, but I switched back to Christine when I went to university and have mostly stuck with it. It's an advantage now because nearly everywhere I have worked has had at least one other Christine, usually 10-20 years older than me, who went by Chris. Being the only Christine in a sea of Chris-es has been handy.

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I've never much liked Christina because I used to get called it by mistake, often repeatedly, by adults.

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Christiana is beautiful. It's not related to Anna, though - it's just another feminine form of Christian.

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Anna is sweet and wholesome, and was on my list of girls' names for a long time.

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