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    The surname Cristo

    A surname, carried by 600 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C623

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cristo is more common than 77.1% of them.

    Origin

    Borrowed from Romance (either Spanish Cristo, Portuguese Cristo or Italian Cristo).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 600 people named Cristo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 514,576 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 493.

    #37,180
    rank among US surnames
    600
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +21.7%
    change since 2000 (was #41,596)

    Who is named Cristo

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

    54% of people named Cristo identified as white (not Hispanic), 42% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 54%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 42%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Cristo

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cristo come from?
    Borrowed from Romance (either Spanish Cristo, Portuguese Cristo or Italian Cristo).
    How common is the surname Cristo?
    600 people in the United States had the surname Cristo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 514,576 Americans. It ranked 37,180th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cristo?
    In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Cristo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 42% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Cristo getting more or less common?
    More common. 493 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 600 in 2010, up 22%.