Christ
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹaɪst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Christ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 121K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 394
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 394 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Χρηστ in GR Greece.
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)
from OE Crīst ‘Christ’, a pageant name; first attested John Crist 1308
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
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 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 394 | — | Christ | 7 |
| CN China | — | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Christ | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Christ | 31 |
| US United States | — | 2,742 | 1 in 121K | 7.3K | Christ | 358 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Christ | 54 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Χρηστ | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 137 | Christ | 43 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | 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; 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 Lefeverb. 1967BEcyclist
- Christ Bongob. 1976CDRepublic of the Congo footballer
- Christ Mbondib. 1992CMCameroonian footballer
- Christ Afalnab. 1998CMCameroonian footballer
- Christ Tiéhib. 1998FRIvorian and French association football player
- Ray Eneme Bekaleb. 1999GAnot in their usual nameGabonese association football player
- Christ Tshiunzab. 2002CDWelsh rugby union player
- 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)
Attested in 63 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #5,997 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 314 | #5,997 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
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 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.
- How do you pronounce Christ?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹaɪst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Christ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 258 thousand people named Christ in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christ.
- 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 2026-10-10.