# Hristo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hristo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 24 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 24 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 66, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 8,319 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,024 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,308 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,802 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Hristo

- Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
- Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, journalist and revolutionary (1847–1876)
- Khristo Markov, Bulgarian triple jumper
- Hristo Smirnenski, Bulgarian writer (1898–1923)
- Hristo Lukov, Bulgarian politician and general (1887-1943)
- Christo Grozev, Bulgarian investigative journalist
- Hristo Shopov, Bulgarian actor
- Hristo Iliev, Bulgarian footballer (1936-1974)
- Christo Christov, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter (1926–2007)
- Hristo Yanev, Bulgarian footballer
- Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountain climber (1943–1984)
- Khristo Etropolski, Bulgarian fencer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.