Christos
Christos reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 1,089, and has been recorded 2,890 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,450th. About 2,500 Christoses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Christos
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,890
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 1,089th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,450th
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Christoses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,890 babies given the name since 1915, about 2,500 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 670 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Christoss
- Christos Sartzetakis (1929–2022)President of Greece from 1985 to 1990
- Christos Tzolis (born 2002)Greek footballer
- Christos Patsatzoglou (born 1979)Greek footballer
- Christos Papadimitriou (born 1949)Greek computer scientist
- Christos Mylordos (born 1991)Cypriot singer
- Christos Yannaras (1935–2024)Greek philosopher and Orthodox theologian
- Christos Stylianides (born 1958)Greek Cypriot politician
- Christos Papoutsis (born 1953)Greek politician
People named Christos with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Christos is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Christos is most concentrated in Massachusetts (8.6×), New York (6.6×), New Jersey (2.2×), Illinois (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular boys’ names the year Christos peaked:
Christos elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Christos | 425 | 1,359th |
| France boys | Christos | 70 | 4,236th |
| Switzerland boys | Christos | 60 | 1,063rd |
| Belgium boys | Christos | 48 | 1,030th |
| Poland boys | Christos | 7 birth registrations | 588th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Christos: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Christos | 52 | 0.004% | 785th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Christos | 7 | 0.002% | 606th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Christos | 1 | 0.002% | 194th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Christos among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Christos | 41 | 46 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Christos against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.