🔥Kit

English, diminutive of Christopher

"bearer of Christ"

Kit Origin and Meaning

The name Kit is a boy's name of English origin meaning "bearer of Christ".

Actor Kit Harington, aka the dreamy Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, has given this nickname-name new style and appeal for boys. Actress Jodie Foster used it for her son back in the 2000s, while actor Kit Connor of Heartstopper fame may have introduced it to a wider audience.

Kit is one of those names that is gender-neutral but has a different derivation for boys and girls. For boys, it originated as a short form of Christopher, while for girls, it's an updated diminutive of Katherine.

Kit as a full name is still beneath the Top 1000 for both sexes in the US, but it's getting more popular. In a recent year, 134 baby girls and 181 baby boys were named Kit, up from 105 and 129 in 2021.

Kit also has the literary appeal of having appeared in works by Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, and a nature/animal connection, given that it is used for the offspring of foxes, rabbits, and weasels.

Kit Rank in US Top 1000

# 929 in the US

Kit Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 47 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Kit

• 47 Nameberry 2025
• 150 Unique 2023
• 179 Unisex 2023
• 163 England 2023

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Famous People Named Kit

• Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson American frontiersman
• Christopher Catesby "Kit" Harington English actor
• Kit Watkins American jazz singer
• Christopher "Kit" French American singer of band Parachute
• Christopher Cornelius "Kit" Culkin American actor and father of Macaulay Culkin
• Christopher "Kit" Marlowe English playwright
• Christopher "Kit" Foster (b. 2001) son of American actress Jodie Foster
• Kit Bomer (b. 2005) son of actor Matt Bomer
• Kit James Thornton (b. 2015) son of actors James Thornton & Joanna Page
• Christopher Carlton "Kit" Cumberbatch (b. 2015) son of Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter
• Kit Rooney (b. 2016) son of footballer Wayne Rooney
• Kit Harry Francis Judd (b. 2017) son of McFly drummer Harry Judd

The name Kit in Pop Culture

• Christopher "Kit" Walker Jr. aka The Phantom, comic book superhero
• Kit Walker character on TV's "American Horror Story: Asylum"
• Christopher "Kit" Rodriguez a character in the "Young Wizards" series
• Kit Cloudkicker character in Disney's animated series TaleSpin
• Kit Ramsey a main character in film "Bowfinger"
• Kit Nelson character on TV's "Alcatraz"
• Kit aka Prince Charming character in 2015 Disney film Cinderella
• Kit Fisto character in the Star Wars series
• Kit Oxenford character in Ken Follett's "Whiteout"
• Kit Carruthers character in the film "Badlands"
• Christopher "Kit" Herondale character in the Dark Artifices series by Cassandra Clare
• "Kit and Kitty" a novel by R. D. Blackmore
• Kit Kat chocolate bar
• Kit term for a young animal such as a fox