Christiân

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Christiân is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Romania it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Christian, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed one”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 800(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 102as Kristian
  • RORomania≈1 in 148as Cristian

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Christiân itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

415,787 people, 2020

#171 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
599 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 157 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CristianLatin(measured from records)
כריסטיאןHebrew(measured from records)
ΚριστιάνGreek(measured from records)
ՔրիստիանArmenian(measured from records)
КристианCyrillic(measured from records)
크리스천Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cristian in AR Argentina, CL Chile, CO Colombia and 2 more, Christian in US United States, Cristiane in BR Brazil and Kristian in FI Finland.

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)

Derivation of Christiân: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Christiân
  1. EnglishChristian(measured from records)
  2. LatinChrīstiānus(measured from records)
  3. Ancient GreekΧρῑστιᾱνόςKhrīstiānós(measured from records)
  4. Ancient Greek rootΧρῑστόςKhrīstós“Christ, anointed one”(measured from records)

From English Christian, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed one”).

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Christiân 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.

Where Christiân is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#282415,7871 in 800398KChristian599
BR Brazil#48306,307as Cristiane1 in 691329KCristiane213
AR Argentina#73≈250,000 est.≈1 in 180370Cristian197
CO Colombia#37≈190,000 est.≈1 in 26374Cristian194
RO Romania#4≈140,000 est.≈1 in 148—Cristian188
CL Chile#29≈110,000 est.≈1 in 160218Cristian199
HU Hungary—54,911as Krisztián1 in 17855K—2
FI Finland#30454,680as Kristian1 in 10260KKristian90
DK Denmark#75437,3491 in 15737KCristian72

415,787 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Christiân under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Christiân mean, and where does it come from?
From English Christian, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed one”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
Is Christiân a male or female name?
Christiân is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Christiân have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 416 thousand people named Christiân, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christian.
Where is Christiân most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Christiân is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 157 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Christiân?
In the United States, the national register counted 415,787 people named Christiân in 2020, about 1 in 800 residents.
How common is Christiân compared with other names?
In the United States, Christiân is the 282nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Christiân” — the 282nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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