What is "christos"

Christos may refer to:

• Jesus of Nazareth
• Christ (title), a title for the Jewish Messiah in Christianity
• Christos (surname)
• Christos (given name)

• , a Greek owned, Liberian flagged cargo ship in service 1962-71

Christos is the non-Greek version of a common Greek given name which is spelled in two ways:

• "Χρίστος", Chrístos, from the adjective "χριστός", christós, i.e., "anointed" (or "chosen one" as is the Christian theological term for the Messiah), and
• "Χρήστος", Chrēstos, from the adjective "χρηστός", chrēstós, i.e., "useful".

In Modern Greek both spellings are practically interchangeable and are pronounced the same (with the stress on the penultimate syllable), but differently from Christós, Christ, which is accented on the last syllable. This eliminates confusion as to whether someone refers to a regular person or to Jesus Christ.
Moving the accent of a word to create a personal name can be observed in other cases as well, e.g. "Σταύρος" (Stávros), from "σταυρός" (stavrós, cross).

Christos as a surname may refer to:

• Maria Devi Christos (born 1960), Ukrainian religious leader
• Jon Christos (born 1976), English musician