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Christos

#3,458 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Christos has been given to 2,890 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #3,458 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Christos, 2025

1 in 100,000

Christos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christos: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Greek

What Christos means

Christos has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Christos

One of the source’s documented entries for Christos records a meaning of anointed.

A separate documented entry treats Christos as a form of Chrestos. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Christos is used in English. Its origins include Greek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,890 boys were recorded with the name Christos between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,090 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,213 in 2020 to #3,458 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,726 in 2015 to #3,458 in 2025.

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 Christos?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,458
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Christos 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christos was born before 1989 — so the typical Christos is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,665
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (485).

Is Christos 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
+637
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−245
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−732
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.3%
Peak was 1979 (67)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,090
1979

Spellings of Christos

Christos is not the most common spelling — Christ is, with 18.4% against Christos's 13.4%.

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 Christos is used

Across 1910–2025, Christos was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 57,145 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Connecticut1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Christos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christos around the world

Where Christos 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
    1996–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • France
    1934–2015
    #4,236
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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 Christos

People whose public names include Christos, 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.

Christos in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Christos. Linked forms have their own page here.

ChrisTakisChristakis

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Christos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,458
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 245
Best rank ever
#1,090
1979
Peak year
1979
67 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,890
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Christos

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

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Names with a curve like Christos

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

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Sibling names for Christos

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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