Cristo

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish10.0%

  Modern Greek Christos, from chrestos, 'useful; serviceable'.

  as a name·Diccionario 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Cristo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Crísto, Crîstó, Cristó

• Italian name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy

  Also written Cristò, Çristo

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Cristó

• German name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Spain

  Also written Cristó

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Cristó

• a separate name6 spellings in the group

  Also written Cristó, Cristö, Ćŕįšto, Crïstö

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

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 name·Dicionário 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 word·kaikki.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.

• Pedro de Cristob. 1540PTPortuguese composer active during the Renaissance period
• Ángel Papadolopusb. 1944ESnot in their usual nameSpanish circus performer (1944-2010)
• 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).

48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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)

Which countries have the most people named Cristo?

Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Cristo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cristo. After it come Colombia, United States, Venezuela and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.