Crist

At the 2020 census, 9,933 Americans bore the surname Crist — 3,500th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,933
Rank: 3,500th
How common: 1 in 30,100
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Apparently from Old English Christ (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.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Crist

Charlie Crist (born 1956)United States Representative from 2017 to 2022
Myndy Crist (born 1975)American actress

People named Crist with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Crist

Also a first name

Crist has been given to 866 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2000. 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.