Crïst
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Crïst is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Apparently from Old English Crīst, Crist (the vowel may originally have been long in early OE, with subsequent shortening in late OE, see Notes for Christmas on the OED.com website), possibly applied.
- GAGabon≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 32K
- ISIceland≈1 in 39K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
10,518 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Crist in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Apparently from Old English Crīst, Crist (the vowel may originally have been long in early OE, with subsequent shortening in late OE, see Notes for Christmas on the OED.com website), possibly applied as a nickname for someone who played the part of Christ in a pageant, or alternatively a pet form of the personal names Christian or Christopher.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Crïst 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,518 | 1 in 32K | 11K | Crist | 402 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Crist | 68 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Crist | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Crist | 47 |
| BR Brazil | — | 561 | 1 in 377K | 561 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Crist | 7 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | — | — |
| BB Barbados | #145 | — | — | — | Crist | 2 |
10,518 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Crïst mean, and where does it come from?
- Apparently from Old English Crīst, Crist (the vowel may originally have been long in early OE, with subsequent shortening in late OE, see Notes for Christmas on the OED.com website), possibly applied… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- Is Crïst a male or female name?
- Crïst is a female 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.
- In which country does Crïst have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Crïst, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crist.
- How common is the name Crïst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,518 people named Crïst in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Crïst compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Crïst is the 145th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cr%C3%AFstThe 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, “Crïst” — the 145th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.