Christ

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Christ is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In the Congo - Kinshasa it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 2K◐
  • CACanada1 in 37K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 46K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.6K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
316 ●

190K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 78K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

ChristLatin · English●96K records
ΧρηστGreek · Greek●1 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Christ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—4,5097.2K rec.——Christ59
PH Philippines—2,6642.2K rec.——Christ40
US United States—2,428138K rec.1 in 137K7.3KChrist316
CA Canada—2,2213.1K rec.—1Christ58
CD Congo - Kinshasa#251,6321.7K rec.——Christ8
AU Australia—1,5702.4K rec.—3Christ59
DE Germany—1,20720K rec.——Christ151
FR France—870△13 rec.1 in 78K870—6
IT Italy—732962 rec.——Christ11
NG Nigeria—565716 rec.——Christ34
IN India—373636 rec.—2Christ39
MY Malaysia—369396 rec.——Christ28

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English96K62%
  • French18K11%
  • Spanish8.7K6%
  • German4.7K3%
  • 4.7K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English96,21662%
French17,86311%
Spanish8,6616%
German4,6903%
4,6633%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Christ is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name30K records spelled Christ4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, United States

    Also written Čhrįst, Chrîst

  • Spanish given name24K records spelled Christ5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chríst, Çhřîšt

  • Indonesian given name3.5K records spelled Christ3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Congo - Kinshasa, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ćhrist

  • Polish given name2.5K records spelled Christ6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Çhrìst, Chrīst, Čĥřišț

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Christ is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, The anointed one, the savior predicted by the Old Testament.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Patronym aus dem Rufnamen Christian(us) 'der Christ'; belegt die Metathese/Varianz von r sowie Formen mit/ohne r, teils auch Übername.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Zu Christ/Christian; die Karte zeigt die Liquide-/Anlautvariation Christ~Kirst. Bearer count: 15.215.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Aus Christian; mit / ohne -ian, Karte zu r-Schwund bzw. Konsonantenvariation.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, baptized in the name of Christ

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02040608019001950200069 · 1923

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Christ in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188015
188121
188223
188317
188415
188523
188616
188714
188817
188920
189020
189119
189220
189314
189424
189517
18969
189717
189813
18999
190011
190110
190212
190312
19047
19056
190612
190713
19086
190910
19109
191111
191223
191326
191429
191539
191640
191761
191858
191951
192048
192145
192261
192369
192456
192565
192649
192755
192868
192949
193051
193146
193229
193322
193436
193541
193625
193734
193827
193928
194021
194121
194225
194318
194420
194519
194617
194726
194824
194925
195021
195120
195232
195332
195431
195520
195626
195723
195823
195933
196028
196134
196230
196336
196436
196535
196619
196731
196818
196925
197024
197126
197233
197331
197428
197521
197623
197727
197818
197927
198021
198117
198223
198321
198416
198520
198611
198725
198815
198926
199019
199111
199228
199322
199417
199530
199626
199721
199826
199924
200037
200135
200236
200337
200430
200532
200638
200738
200841
200940
201028
201146
201230
201330
201423
201537
201635
201732
201829
201927
202018
202121
202228
202325
202431
202534

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Fred Trump, b. 1905Fred Trump Jr., b. 1938Christ Lefever, b. 1967Christ Bongo, b. 1976Christ Mbondi, b. 1992Christ Afalna, b. 1998Christ Tiéhi, b. 1998Ray Eneme Bekale, b. 1999Christ Tshiunza, b. 2002Christ Inao Oulaï, b. 2006

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 63 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Christ
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107.3K#4,854
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007K#4,644
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206.6K#5,114
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#5,997
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.1K#1,051
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024870#1,302
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007538#3,578
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020314#5,997
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—231—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991225—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—199#2,902
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026175—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 378 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Christ?
We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Christ (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Christ have the most bearers?
Christ is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled christ.
How common is Christ compared with other names?
In the Congo - Kinshasa, Christ is the 25th most common given name of 18,770 given names recorded there.
Is Christ a male or female name?
Christ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Christ mean?
Recorded meaning: from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Christ” — the 25th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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