Christos

Where Christos comes from

The dictionaries list Christos as a given name — a male given name from Greek — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Greek
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,825 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #1,089
    67 babies named Christos — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,347.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Greek
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Christos hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.