Cristo Family History

Spanish, Italian (Sardinia and Lazio), and Portuguese derive from the personal name Cristo, which means 'Christ', originating from the Latin Christus and the Greek Christos (see Christ).

This name is an Americanized, shortened, and altered form of various Greek derivatives of the personal name Christos. It also represents an American form of the Bulgarian or Macedonian name Hristov.

Additionally, it is an Americanized version of the Albanian name Kristo and, in some cases, also relates to the Croatian or Slovak Krišto (see Kristo).

The name may also be a shortened and altered version of Croatian, Slovenian, or Slovak Krištof, which translates to ‘Christopher’ (see Kristof).

For further comparison, see Christo.