Boy

Christos

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#3,459
33 boys
2015
#2,727
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Christos: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,090 in 1979.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,090 in 1979; #3,459 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Christos in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#3,459 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #1,090.

Babies in 2025
33
Since 1880
2,890
Years on record
103

Babies named Christos, every year since 1880

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Boys

Christos: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,090 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 67 (1979).

About the name Christos

In 2025, 33 US boys were named Christos, making it the 3,459th most common boys’ name of the year, up 639 places from #4,098 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 26 boys named Christos in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,090, reached in 1979. That year also had the most boys given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #2,727 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Christos in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 2,890 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 485 babies named Christos.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 318 US boys were named Christos; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Chris (170,417 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cristos are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Cristos (41).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Christos in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——33#3,459
2024——26#4,098
2023——33#3,484
2022——26#4,112
2021——27#3,933
2020——35#3,215
2019——33#3,435
2018——27#3,907
2017——31#3,528
2016——47#2,633
2015——44#2,727
2014——41#2,853
2013——31#3,422
2012——36#3,124
2011——44#2,710
2010——52#2,410
2009——61#2,189
2008——50#2,521
2007——40#2,932
2006——57#2,227
2005——37#2,852
2004——46#2,427
2003——39#2,583
2002——37#2,609
2001——52#2,032
2000——44#2,227
1999——31#2,734
1998——45#2,072
1997——37#2,264
1996——29#2,604
1995——27#2,695
1994——40#2,052
1993——32#2,356
1992——47#1,783
1991——43#1,832
1990——43#1,815
1989——58#1,438
1988——47#1,557
1987——39#1,712
1986——36#1,732
1985——37#1,676
1984——45#1,427
1983——47#1,363
1982——45#1,421
1981——47#1,380
1980——57#1,217
1979——67#1,090
1978——51#1,259
1977——48#1,291
1976——43#1,354
1975——49#1,210
1974——47#1,218
1973——55#1,094
1972——35#1,441
1971——47#1,201
1970——43#1,265
1969——29#1,500
1968——27#1,510
1967——26#1,513
1966——34#1,306
1965——18#1,867
1964——22#1,704
1963——22#1,702
1962——21#1,767
1961——18#1,963
1960——9#2,904
1959——16#2,048
1958——15#2,112
1957——9#2,855
1956——12#2,384
1955——7#3,246
1954——13#2,221
1953——9#2,740
1952——7#3,143
1951——5#3,803
1949——9#2,640
1948——11#2,347
1947——7#3,128
1946——5#3,603
1945——5#3,399
1943——6#3,278
1941——7#2,915
1940——7#2,917
1937——6#3,229
1936——7#2,909
1935——5#3,739
1934——6#3,347
1932——9#2,670
1931——6#3,451
1930——12#2,322
1928——9#2,885
1927——6#3,845
1926——13#2,321
1925——10#2,785
1924——10#2,845
1923——8#3,218
1922——14#2,261
1921——5#4,445
1920——11#2,634
1919——6#3,809
1918——9#2,915
1916——11#2,408
1915——5#3,923

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).