Christian

given name · French · Latin script

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

Christian is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the medieval personal name Christian, from Latin Christianus, literally ‘follower of Christ’.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 167◐
  • GPGuadeloupe1 in 202
  • ECEcuador1 in 309

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

≈1.0M ●

across 14 countries

#607 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
461 ●

1.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 157 ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin●

From the medieval personal name Christian, from Latin Christianus, literally ‘follower of Christ’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Christian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#33405,795619K rec.1 in 167406KChristian426
US United States#832398,291299K rec.1 in 835398KChristian461
AR Argentina#320349,971201K rec.—14Christian160
PH Philippines#36286,25397K rec.——Christian153
MX Mexico#217227,079169K rec.—150Christian239
PE Peru#189176,459149K rec.——Christian124
CL Chile#17597,1939K rec.—2Christian154
EC Ecuador#11054,783△2K rec.1 in 30955KChristian95
CO Colombia#19044,77512K rec.——Christian160
VE Venezuela#57143,55919K rec.——Christian93
SE Sweden—39,858△3K rec.1 in 25640KChristian79
DK Denmark—37,349△2 rec.1 in 15737KChristian4

Roughly 406K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 167). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • French2.3M26%
  • English1.8M21%
  • Spanish1.7M19%
  • German1.4M16%
  • Portuguese342K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French2,283,98826%
English1,808,26821%
Spanish1,654,06019%
German1,392,34116%
Portuguese341,6764%

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◐

Christian is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name413K records spelled Christian47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Western Frisian, English

    Also written Christiaan, Christiern, Čhristiaan, Christiån, Çhrîstîàn

  • a separate given name149K records spelled Christian5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Switzerland, Ecuador

    Also written Christián, Christían, Chrístian

  • Indonesian given name82K records spelled Christian8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Nigeria

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Christian, Christian', Christiàn, Ćĥřĩŝtian, Çhristiån

118 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●

Christian 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 French, From Latin Christianus, 'follower of Christ'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, from Lat Christianus, common in Brittany; first attested Chrlstiana 1154

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, A follower of Christ; derived from Latin Christianus

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Old English/German: a follower of Christ

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  • In English, Christian (L Christidnus ‘follower of Christ’, L ChrTstus, Gk Khristos, a deriv. of kriein to anoint, calqued on Hebr. mashiach Messiah). This male given name was intro¬ duced into England following the Norman conquest, espe¬ cially by Bret, settlers. It was also used in the same form as a female name, and in some cases the surname may be metronymic in origin.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

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●

05K10K15K20K19001950200016K · 2000

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Christian in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188043
188153
188249
188350
188454
188555
188633
188747
188851
188951
189049
189134
189242
189339
189440
189553
189636
189739
189830
189942
190035
190138
190233
190336
190430
190526
190633
190732
190829
190929
191040
191141
191291
191391
1914122
1915151
1916154
1917149
1918155
1919125
1920143
1921132
1922160
1923116
1924125
1925105
1926113
1927112
1928114
192993
193094
193187
193286
193377
193492
193571
193691
193785
193899
193994
194099
1941122
1942108
1943135
1944135
1945141
1946182
1947187
1948202
1949218
1950268
1951272
1952319
1953338
1954352
1955350
1956389
1957327
1958427
1959581
1960662
1961606
1962650
1963672
1964711
1965730
1966888
19671,320
19681,780
19692,194
19702,623
19712,639
19722,962
19732,693
19742,490
19752,463
19762,268
19772,294
19782,208
19792,262
19802,318
19812,235
19822,576
19832,419
19842,726
19852,915
19863,214
19873,324
19883,937
19894,625
19906,786
19919,447
199211,953
199311,891
199411,987
199513,813
199615,824
199715,059
199814,522
199914,783
200016,059
200115,457
200214,597
200313,908
200413,926
200514,210
200614,487
200714,063
200813,069
200912,657
201011,110
201110,334
20129,640
20139,352
20148,480
20158,220
20167,674
20177,025
20186,582
20195,781
20205,104
20214,636
20224,486
20234,158
20244,272
20253,641

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●

1400160018002000Christian II, b. 1481Johann Christian Bach, b. 1735Christian VIII of Denmark, b. 1786Leopold I of Belgium, b. 1790Christian X, b. 1870Haakon VII of Norway, b. 1872Christian B. Anfinsen, b. 1916Jens Christian Skou, b. 1918Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, b. 1960Frederik X, b. 1968

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 148 sources across 77 countries.

Official registers attesting Christian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024406K#653
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020398K#111
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202455K#35
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201054K#626
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200051K#597
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202051K#651
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—51K#49
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—40K#102
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—37K#8
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—23K#310
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—23K#137
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202222K—

Reference works 8

  • 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
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2,063 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Christian?
We estimate roughly 1.0 million people bear Christian (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Christian have the most bearers?
We estimate about 406 thousand people bear Christian in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled christian.
Where is Christian most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Christian is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 157 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is Christian compared with other names?
In France, Christian is the 33rd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Christian a male or female name?
Christian 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 Christian mean?
Recorded meaning: From the medieval personal name Christian, from Latin Christianus, literally ‘follower of Christ’.
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About this data

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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, “Christian” — the 33rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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