Christ
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308 (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 40 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kʁi/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Christ is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Christ is also written Χρηστ in Greek.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 160few records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 22Kfew records
- BEBelgium≈1 in 29Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)
≈700,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Christ in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Christ
- French:/kʁi/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/kɾist̪/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Christ, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Christ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #133 | ≈700,000 est. | ≈1 in 156 | — | Christ | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Christ | 31 |
| US United States | — | 2,742 | 1 in 121K | 7.3K | Christ | 358 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Christ | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Christ | 74 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 1 | Christ | 75 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 137 | Christ | 43 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Christ | 14 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Fred Trumpb. 1905USnot in their usual nameAmerican real estate developer; father of Donald Trump (1905–1999)
- Fred Trump Jr.b. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican airplane pilot; elder brother of Donald Trump
- Christ Inao Oulaïb. 2006CIIvorian association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)63 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Christ mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Christ?
- In the etymology graph, Messiah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Christ a male or female name?
- Christ is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- How do you pronounce Christ?
- It depends on the language: in French /kʁi/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /kɾist̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Christ?
- Mondonomo estimates about 700 thousand people named Christ in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christ. After it come Nigeria, United States, Philippines and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Christ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,742 people named Christ in 2020, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
- How common is Christ compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Christ is the 133rd most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Christ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/christThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 133rd most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.