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christ Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from the Latin personal name Christus ‘Christ’ (see Christian). The name Christ (Latin Christus) is from Greek Khristos, a derivative of khriein ‘to anoint’, a calque of Hebrew mashiach ‘Messiah’, which likewise means literally ‘the anointed’.
  2. English: variant of Crist.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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christ Family Facts

Distribution of christ Families in the US in 1920
Number of christ families
 194-386
 65-193		 1-64
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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