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The CHRIST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,985 4644 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 2,608 2337 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +4377 -2307 -0.002 -26
Other Countries
Australia 112 12932 0.001 7
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHRIST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 740 1991 0.006 60
California 561 5027 0.002 17
New York 529 3608 0.003 28
Illinois 519 2444 0.004 42
Florida 482 4153 0.003 30
Top States for CHRIST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 740 1991 0.006 60
Nebraska 103 2099 0.006 60
North Dakota 34 3150 0.005 53
Wisconsin 251 2862 0.005 47
Illinois 519 2444 0.004 42

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHRIST live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHRIST represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHRIST in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHRIST by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHRIST

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CHRIST surname.

Ethnic distribution of CHRIST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 93 1.33
Black/African American 92 1.32
Mixed Race 84 1.2
Asian/Pacific 44 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.33
White (Caucasian) 6,649 95.19

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHRIST surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CHRIST is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CHRIST in historical publications

CHRIST. I take this name to be a shortened form of Christopher, rather than a profane use of the designation of our Saviour. Mi*. Bowditch informs us that " in New York theie are no less than thirteen families of Christ, including a firm of ' Spies, Christ, and Company.' "

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CHRIST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHRIST.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CHRIST

The following words are slight variants of CHRIST that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.