Christos
Christos was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,458 among boys’ names; 2,890 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Christos and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 18 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christos by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Christos mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Christos is “a male given name from Greek”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Christos?
#3,458 among boys’ names, 2025
Christos fell from #2,726 in 2015 to #3,458 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.0 to 19.3 per million.
67 babies in 1979, the peak
Christos peaked in 1979, when 67 boys were given it, #1,090 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,458 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,095 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,482 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,108 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,929 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,213 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,432 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,903 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,524 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,632 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,726 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,851 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,420 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,122 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,709 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,409 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,188 | 30.8 |
| 2008 | 50 | #2,520 | 24.5 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,930 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,226 | 27.7 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,848 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,423 | 23.2 |
| 2003 | 39 | #2,579 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 37 | #2,605 | 19.1 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,028 | 26.8 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,223 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,730 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,069 | 23.5 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,261 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,599 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,690 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,047 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,350 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 47 | #1,778 | 23.5 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,826 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,810 | 20.9 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,433 | 29.0 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,552 | 24.6 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,710 | 20.9 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,730 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 37 | #1,675 | 20.0 |
| 1984 | 45 | #1,426 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 47 | #1,362 | 26.2 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,420 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 47 | #1,380 | 26.2 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,217 | 32.0 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,090 | 38.9 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,259 | 31.1 |
| 1977 | 48 | #1,291 | 29.2 |
| 1976 | 43 | #1,354 | 27.4 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,210 | 31.4 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,218 | 29.9 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,094 | 35.3 |
| 1972 | 35 | #1,441 | 21.6 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,201 | 26.6 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,265 | 23.1 |
| 1969 | 29 | #1,500 | 16.2 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,509 | 15.5 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,512 | 14.9 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,305 | 19.1 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,866 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,703 | 11.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,701 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,766 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,962 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,903 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,047 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,111 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,854 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,383 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,245 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,220 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,739 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,141 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,802 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,639 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,346 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,127 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,602 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,398 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,277 | 4.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,914 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,917 | 6.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,228 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,908 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,737 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,345 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,670 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,450 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,321 | 10.9 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,883 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,843 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,321 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,783 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,844 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,216 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,260 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,443 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,633 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,808 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,914 | 8.9 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,407 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,921 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christos a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christos has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christos: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christos, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,890 Americans ever recorded as Christos. The median Christos alive today is 34 years old; half are between 18 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 3,595 people named Christos (16 women and girls, 3,579 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,418 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 152 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 602 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 628 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 697 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 431 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Christos born?
The states with the most babies named Christos are New York, Massachusetts and Illinois, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 654 | #1,139 | 3.2× |
| Massachusetts | 268 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Illinois | 133 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 82 | #2,538 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 76 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Christos is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christos is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1915 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Christos with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Christos
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Christos and names like it
- Compare Christos and RommelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChristos peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christos since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Christos.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Christos alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.