Cristo
Cristo was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,528 among boys’ names; 1,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Cristo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cristo?
#6,528 among boys’ names, 2025
Cristo fell from #3,899 in 2015 to #6,528 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 7.6 per million.
70 babies in 2005, the peak
Cristo peaked in 2005, when 70 boys were given it, #1,839 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,528 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,476 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,480 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,325 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,375 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,286 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,159 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,586 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,007 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,119 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,899 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,523 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,675 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,911 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,353 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,475 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,567 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,380 | 26.5 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,040 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,624 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,839 | 35.0 |
| 2004 | 62 | #1,954 | 31.2 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,055 | 27.8 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,381 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,154 | 24.7 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,224 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,564 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,603 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,759 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,421 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,719 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,343 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,050 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,775 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,528 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,805 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,877 | 5.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,253 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,185 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,782 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,493 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,585 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,741 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,664 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,141 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,978 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,265 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cristo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristo, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,239 Americans ever recorded as Cristo. The median Cristo alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,283 people named Cristo (93 women and girls, 1,190 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Cristo rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 165 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 764 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 261 |
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 Cristo born?
The states with the most babies named Cristo are California, Texas and Illinois, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 294 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 268 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Cristo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1974 it was given 2.2 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 Cristo 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 Cristo
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 Cristo and names like it
- Compare Cristo and DavionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCristo peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristo since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Cristo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cristo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.