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Kristo

Boys' name

Christ, anointed one, through Kristián

Kristo has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kristo, 2010

1 in 616,000

Kristo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristo: meaning, origin, and history

Christ, anointed one, through Kristián

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kristo means

Kristo belongs to the name family reached through Kristo → Kristián. Its meaning is “Christ, anointed one”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kristo is used in Albanian, Estonian, Finnish and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kristjan, Risto and Kristián.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Kristo is pronounced /ˈkristo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Kristo between 2006 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2009; its best national rank was #8,040 in 2009.

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 Kristo?

Kristo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristo 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 2010 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 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristo was born before 2009 — so the typical Kristo is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
80.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
31
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 80.6% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Kristo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (10)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,040
2009

Spellings of Kristo

Kristo is not the most common spelling — Kris is, with 32.8% against Kristo's 0.07%.

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.

Kristo around the world

Where Kristo 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
    2021–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1969–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kristo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,040
2009
Peak year
2009
10 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kristo

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

KritinKridayKrithinKriyanKrishiKrivKrikorKrishaanKrishnKrisnaKriseanKristerKrizalKridhavKriegKristosKristieKrishayKrithvikTaistoKrishalKristiHristoKriyansh

Sibling names for Kristo

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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