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The crist Surname

crist Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Old English Crist, probably applied as a nickname for someone who played the part of Christ in a pageant.
  2. North German: from a short form of the personal name Kristen or one of its variants (see Christian).
  3. Americanized spelling of North German Krist.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of crist Families in the US in 1920
Number of crist families
 131-259
 44-130		 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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