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Christ

#3,391 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Christos

Christ has been given to 4,029 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,391 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Christ, 2025

1 in 97,500

Christ over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christ: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christos

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christ means

Christ is a form of Christos.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Christ is a form of Christos. Christos has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Christ is used in East Central German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christos, Christoph, Christa and Christine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,977 boys were recorded with the name Christ between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 1923; its best national rank was #363 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,070 in 2020 to #3,391 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,091 in 2015 to #3,391 in 2025.

In the United States, 52 girls were recorded with the name Christ between 1958 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1965; its best national rank was #5,922 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Christ?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,391
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Christ sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christ. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christ was born before 1953 — so the typical Christ is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,068
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.2% of all recorded uses (565).

Is Christ rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+232
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,679
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−300
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.3%
Peak was 1923 (69)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#363
1881

Spellings of Christ

Christ is not the most common spelling — Chris is, with 85.6% against Christ's 2.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Christ is used

Across 1910–2025, Christ was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 67,731 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 7,143
  2. 2Illinois1 in 20,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Christ has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christ around the world

Where Christ ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1932–2025
    #1,485
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–1986
    #460
    in 1986

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Christ

People whose public names include Christ, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Christ by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,391
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,679
Best rank ever
#363
1881
Peak year
1923
69 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,977
Count in 2025
34

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,922
1965
Peak year
1965
6 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Christ

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChristosChrissChristenChristanChristonChristyArtistChristainChristoferChristoperChristophCristChristoChristopChristinChristineChristinaChrishawnChristieChrlesChrisChristopheChristiaanChrome

Names with a curve like Christ

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Christ, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EnosGastonRichmondBenjimanPriceTillmanWellingtonEvansMahlonDomenickJudgeHenderson

Sibling names for Christ

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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