Christ

At the 2020 census, 6,629 Americans bore the surname Christ — 5,114th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 45,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,629
Rank: 5,114th
How common: 1 in 45,100
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Chrīst(us), from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός, proper noun use of χρῑστός (“[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (“anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Christ described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Christ

Also a first name

Christ has been given to 4,029 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1923. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.