How common is the surname Christ?

7,261 people in the United States had the surname Christ in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,521 Americans. It ranked 4,854th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Christ?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Christ identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Christ?

Christ is /kɹaɪst/, one syllable.

Is the surname Christ getting more or less common?

More common. 6,985 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,261 in 2010, up 4.0%.

The surname Christ

A Latin surname, carried by 7,261 people in the United States.

Pronounced /kɹaɪst/ 1 syllable Soundex C623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Christ is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

Latin origin

From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Chrīst(us), from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.

One of 91 Latin surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,261 people named Christ in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,521 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,985.

#4,854

rank among US surnames

7,261

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+4%

change since 2000 (was #4,644)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,850	Hornsby	7,267	42,486
#4,852	McKenney	7,265	42,498
#4,853	Cupp	7,263	42,509
#4,854	Christ	7,261	42,521

Who is named Christ

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Christ identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Christ

Christ has the Soundex code C623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C623.

Other Latin surnames

All 91 Latin surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Christ come from?: From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Chrīst(us), from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah,…
How common is the surname Christ?: 7,261 people in the United States had the surname Christ in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,521 Americans. It ranked 4,854th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Christ?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Christ identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Christ?: Christ is /kɹaɪst/, one syllable.
Is the surname Christ getting more or less common?: More common. 6,985 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,261 in 2010, up 4.0%.
What are other spellings of Christ?: Xt.