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Christian originated as a Baptismal name used by persons of the Christian religion. It is now a given name born by males, and by females as Christiana and other feminized variants. An historically commonly used abbreviation, used for example on English 17th century church monuments and pedigrees, is Xpian, using the Greek Chi Rho Christogram ??, short for ???????, Christ. The Greek form of the baptismal name is ??????????, a Christian. The name denotes a follower of Christ, thus a Christian. It has been used as a given name since the Middle Ages, at first as a name for females, without any feminising word endings.
Today the name is popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Estonia. Today in Europe -- though not the United States -- it is almost exclusively used as a male name, but in the 17th and 18th centuries it was a popular female first name in Scotland.
Female variants of the name include Christine, Christina, Christiane, Cristiane, Kristen, Kristin, and Kirsten. Holders of the name Christian may go by the nicknames or shortened forms Chris, Chrissy, "Crix", or Xian.
Video Christian (given name)
In other languages
- Christianus (Latin)
- Chrétien (disambiguation) (French)
- Christian (Danish, German, Norwegian, French, Swedish)
- Christiaan (Afrikaans, Dutch)
- Karsten (Low German, Dutch)
- ???????? (Qrystl?k) (Yiddish)
- Crisdean (Gaelic)
- Creestee (Manx)
- Cristiano (Italian and Portuguese)
- Cristian (Galician)
- Cristian or Cristián (Italian, Spanish, Romanian;Romance languages)
- Kristian (Czech, Slovak)
- Kristian (Estonian, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Croatian or Swedish, Breton)
- Kristjan (Estonian, Faroese, Slovenian)
- Kristian, Kristi, Kristo (Albanian)
- Kristján (Icelandic)
- Kristijan Croatian
- Kristian (Malaysian)
- Kristi?ns (Latvian)
- Kristijonas (Lithuanian)
- Krystian (Polish)
- Krisztián, Keresztény, for the Danish kings Keresztély (Hungarian)
- ??????????, Christianós (Greek)
- ???????? (Russian)
- ???????? (Ukrainian)
- ???????? (Serbian)
- ?????????, Kristijan or ?????????, Hristijan (Macedonian)
- ??????, ????????, ????????, ???????? or ???????? (Bulgarian)
- ????????? (Armenian)
- ???????? (Arabic)
- ????? (Persian)
- ?????? (Urdu)
- ????????? (Khrishtan) Bengali
- ????????? (Krishtan) Sylheti
- ???? (?s?'?) (Hindi)
- ?????????? (Khr???iyana) (Nepali)
- ????? (Mas?h?) (Punjabi)
- ??????????? (Kri?ciyan) (Kannada)
- ???????????(Kris?iyan) (Telugu)
- ??????????? (Kiristuvar) (Tamil)
- ????????? (Khris?te?yn) (Thai)
- ????? (Kèl?s?dì?n) (Chinese Simplified)
- ????? (Kèl?s?dì?n) (Chinese Traditional)
- ?????? (Kurisuchan) (Japanese)
- ????? (Keuliseutian) (Korean)
- Karaitiana (Maori)
Maps Christian (given name)
Characters
- Christian, protagonist of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- Baron Christian de Neuvillette, a character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- Christian Cage (born 1973), alter-ego of professional wrestler and actor Jay Reso
- Christian Shephard, a character on the ABC series Lost
- Christian Troy, a character on the FX original series Nip/Tuck
- Christian, a character in Diana Wynne Jones' fantasy novel Black Maria
- Christian Grey, a character from E. L. James novel 50 Shades of Grey
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Males with the given name Christian
- Several kings of Denmark
- Several princes
- Christian of Oliva, 13th century Cistercian monk and the first bishop of Prussia
- Christian X of Denmark, King of Denmark and Iceland
- Christian Alexander (born 1990), American actor
- Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1622-1708), German ruler
- Christian Baciotti, French musician
- Christian Bakkerud (1984-2011), Danish racing driver
- Christian Bale (born 1974), English actor
- Christian Bauman (born 1970), American writer
- Christian Bautista (born 1981), Filipino singer
- Christian Bergman (born 1988), American baseball player
- Christian Bethancourt (born 1991), Panamanian baseball player
- Christian Bizot (1928-2002), French winemaker, head of the Bollinger Champagne house
- Christian Boros (born 1964), German advertising agency founder and art collector
- Christian Cooke (born 1987), English actor
- Christian Daniel, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
- Christian Dior (1905-1957), French fashion designer
- Christian Doppler (1803-1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist
- Christian Ehrhoff (born 1982), German ice hockey player
- Christian Fernández Salas, Spanish football player
- Christian Fox (born 1981), Scottish footballer
- Christian Friedrich (baseball) (born 1987), American baseball player
- Christian Fuchs (born 1986), Austrian footballer
- Christian Garcia (born 1985), American baseball player
- Christian Clemens (born 1991), German footballer
- Christian Hosoi (born 1967), skateboarder
- Christian Jessen (born 1977), English doctor and television presenter
- Christian Johnson (born 1986), American football player
- Christian Kirk (born 1996), American football player
- Christian Kum (born 1985), Dutch footballer
- Christian Lacroix (born 1951), French fashion designer
- Christian Louboutin (born 1964), French footwear designer
- Christian Jimémez (born 1986), American soccer player
- Christian Julius de Meza, Danish army commander
- Christian Kälin, Swiss lawyer and businessman
- Christian Klien (born 1983), Austrian racing driver
- Christian McCaffrey (born 1996), American football player
- Christian Okoye (born 1961), American football player
- Christian Pampel (born 1979), German volleyball player
- Christian Penigaud (born 1964), French beach volleyball player
- Christian Potenza (born 1972), Canadian actor
- Christian Reiher (born 1984), German mathematician
- Christian Sam (born 1996), American football player
- Christian Siriano (born 1985), American fashion designer and winner of Project Runway
- Christian Sitepu (born 1986), Indonesian basketball player
- Christian Slater (born 1969), American actor
- Christian Vasquez (born 1977), Filipino actor
- Christian Vieri (born 1973), Italian footballer
- Christian Wirth (1885-1944), German Nazi SS concentration camp commander involved in Action T4 and Operation Reinhard
- Christian Yelich (born 1991), American baseball player
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author
- A ring name of Canadian professional wrestler Jay Reso
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Females with the given name Christian
- Christian Maclagan (1811-1901) Scottish Antiquarian
- Christian Pitre (born 1983), Actress
- Christian Ramsay (1786-1839), British botanist
- Christian Serratos (born 1990), American actress
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References
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