girls:
52 births since 1958
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1880
#1976 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1880
#4368 (44th percentile)
The name Christ is the #4,368 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,962 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 43.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,976 (56.9% percentile) for all time with 3,910 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1958.
Christ has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1958 for girls).
The name Christ has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Christ reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #480) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 198 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Christ ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 6.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Christ reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #742) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Christ".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Christ. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.1% confident that Christ is pronounced as kraist, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is krihst, at 35.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K R AY1 S T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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