Cristi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Cristo (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈkɹɪsti/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Cristi is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 990few records(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 4.6K
- ITItaly≈1 in 27Kfew records
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 985 (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cristi
- English:/ˈkɹɪsti/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/kristi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma plural de Cristo
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cristi 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.
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; e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Cristi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Cristo
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In French, alternative form of sacristi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Cristi Conawayb. 1964USAmerican actress
- Cristi Puiub. 1967RORomanian film director and screenwriter
- Cristi Harrisb. 1977USAmerican actress
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cristi mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Cristo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- What are other forms of the name Cristi?
- In the etymology graph, Chris, Christian and Kris are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Cristian.
- How do you pronounce Cristi?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈkɹɪsti/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /kristi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Cristi a male or female name?
- Cristi is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Cristi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Cristi in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cristi. After it come United States, Italy, Moldova and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cristi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,090 people named Cristi in 2020, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cristi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cristiThe 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, “Cristi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.