Cristão

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Christian (relating to or following Christianity) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Cristão is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,241 people, counted by IBGE.

  • BRBrazil1 in 171K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 4.5M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 9.2M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,241 people

Record sources
25 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cristao in BR Brazil.

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)

Christian (relating to or following Christianity)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Cristão is found

(measured from records)

Cristão 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 Cristão is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,2411 in 171K1.2KCristao25
PT Portugal≈120 est.≈1 in 87K—Cristão21
US United States≈37 est.≈1 in 9.2Mlisted—24
AR Argentina101 in 4.5M10—14

1,241 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Cristão is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Cristao

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cristao

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cristao

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cristão 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 Cristão mean, and where does it come from?
Christian (relating to or following Christianity) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Cristão?
In the etymology graph, Crétin is a form of the same name in other languages.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Cristão?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Cristão, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cristao. After it come Portugal, United States and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Cristão?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,241 people named Cristão, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.

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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, “Cristão” — ranked 7604th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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