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Christian
Pronounced /ˈkɹɪʃt͡ʃən/
Rank in 2024
#77
Born in 2024
4,247
Peak year
2000 · #22
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:31 in 2024 (#4,522)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 4,247 boys were named Christian, about 1 in every 404.
- It peaked in 2000 with 16,057 babies, ranked #22.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 450,258 boys have been named Christian since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Christian per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 3.6Millennials1981–96
- 6.9Gen Z1997–12
- 3.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,411 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Silent: 1,823 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,713 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Gen X: 34,137 babies, 1.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 109,666 babies, 3.60 per 1,000. Gen Z: 217,868 babies, 6.94 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 75,715 babies, 3.49 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Cristien, from Old French chrestien, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed [one]”) + Latin suffix -ānus. The older form is Christen. Doublet of cretin. By surface analysis, Christ + -ian.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek found in England since the twelfth century.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek of medieval usage, rare today.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈkɹɪʃt͡ʃən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Christian, CC BY-SA 4.0.