Cristo
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cristo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as Christ (title given to Jesus as the messiah).
- ESSpain1 in 97K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 47K
- VEVenezuela1 in 47K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
1,283 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Modern Greek Christos, from chrestos, 'useful; serviceable'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cristo is read(measured from records)
Cristo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese15%
Christ (title given to Jesus as the messiah)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish10.0%
Modern Greek Christos, from chrestos, 'useful; serviceable'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cristo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,283 | 1 in 259K | 1.2K | — | 133 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 1 | Cristo | 47 |
| VE Venezuela | 606 | 1 in 47K | 606 | — | 15 |
| ES Spain | 515 | 1 in 97K | 515 | Cristo | 106 |
| AR Argentina | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 164K | 1.2K | Cristo | 44 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Cristo | 17 |
| PA Panama | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Cristo | 8 |
| EE Estonia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 70K | listed | — | 3 |
1,283 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates 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)
Cristo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, sobrenome raro derivado de Cristo, do gr. Christós
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Spanish: short form of CRISTÓBAL . It is occasionally also used in the English-speaking world as an informal pet form of CHRISTOPHER .
as a word
In English, A surname from the Romance languages.
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)
- Pedro de Cristob. 1540PTPortuguese composer active during the Renaissance period
- Francisco Manuel Homem Cristob. 1860PTPortuguese military officer
- Ángel Papadolopusb. 1944ESnot in their usual nameSpanish circus performer (1944-2010)
- Juan Fernando Cristob. 1964COColombian politician and lawyer
- Cristo Barriosb. 1976ESSpanish musician
- Cristo Marrero Henríquezb. 1978ESSpanish footballer
- Cristo Martínb. 1987ESSpanish footballer
- Cristo Reyesb. 1987ESSpanish darts player
- Cristo Díaz Martínb. 1992ESSpanish footballer
- Cristo Gonzálezb. 1997ESCristo González Pérez el guapísimo futbolista español
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 600 | #37,180 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 596 | #39,767 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 507 | #7,903 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 507 | #7,896 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 493 | #41,596 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Cristo come from?
- Modern Greek Christos, from chrestos, 'useful; serviceable'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What does the name Cristo mean?
- In Portuguese, Christ (title given to Jesus as the messiah)
- In which country does Cristo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Cristo, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cristo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,283 people named Cristo in 2020, about 1 in 259 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, “Cristo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.