Christos
Straight from Greek Χριστός, "anointed": the word that also gives us Messiah, marking someone set apart for a role. Fewer than 300 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Christos Pronunciation
Christos is pronounced KHREES-tos (/ˈxristɔs/).
What Christos means
Where Christos comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Christos comes straight from Greek. The source is Χριστός, which means anointed, and behind that word stands the verb χρίω, chríō, to rub or smear with oil. Anointing once marked a person for a role that others in the crowd did not hold, and the oil was the sign of that setting-apart.
The Greek word was itself a translation of the Hebrew mashiach, the anointed one, which reaches English as Messiah. So the name and that title grow from a single root. To carry Christos is to carry a word that names a chosen place rather than a private trait, and the sense of anointing here is closer to being marked out than to any literal oil left on the skin.
On a Polish class register the name looks foreign beside Jan and Piotr, a Greek borrowing that Polish glosses as namaszczony. Read it slowly. One plain word, anointed, holds the whole reach of χρίω.
How many people are named Christos
1 in 80249 men in Poland is named Christos. 266 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1873 among male names.
Christos's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Christos as a middle name
Christos is a first name for 266 men in Poland and a middle name for another 35, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1381st, between Blake (35) and Elwis (35).
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#1379 Berthold35
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#1380 Blake35
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#1381 Christos35
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#1382 Elwis35
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#1383 Ernestyn35