Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Hristo isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hristo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 531 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hristo’s family of names
In Bulgarian usage, Hristo is a transliteration of Христо.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hristo
- Hristo StoichkovBulgarian footballerborn 1966
- Hristo BotevBulgarian poet, journalist and revolutionary (1847–1876)1848–1876
- Khristo MarkovBulgarian triple jumperborn 1965
- Hristo SmirnenskiBulgarian writer (1898–1923)
- Hristo LukovBulgarian politician and general (1887-1943)
- Christo GrozevBulgarian investigative journalistborn 1969
- Hristo ShopovBulgarian actorborn 1964
- Hristo IlievBulgarian footballer (1936-1974)
- Hristo ZlatanovItalian/Bulgarian volleyball playerborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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