Christos is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning “anointed.” In 2024 it was given to 26 boys in the United States.
Christos at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Greek
Meaning
“anointed”
About the name Christos
Christos belongs to the Greek tradition. Its meaning — “anointed” — is the sense carried by its Greek roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Christos first appears in Social Security records in 1915. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1090 in 1979, and in 2024 26 babies received the name — 2,857 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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