🔥Kit
English, diminutive of Christopher
"anointed one or follower of Christ"Kit Origin and Meaning
The name Kit is both a boy's name and a girl's name of English origin.
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. For girls, it's an updated diminutive of Katherine.
Kit is a fashionable gender-neutral name that is fairly evenly distributed between boys and girls, with just over 100 babies of each gender named Kit in the US in 2021.
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Famous People Named Kit
- Christopher Houston "Kit" CarsonAmerican frontiersman
- Christopher Catesby "Kit" HaringtonEnglish actor
- Kit WatkinsAmerican jazz singer
- Christopher "Kit" FrenchAmerican singer of band Parachute
- Christopher Cornelius "Kit" CulkinAmerican actor and father of Macaulay Culkin
- Christopher "Kit" MarloweEnglish 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
Kit in Pop Culture
- Christopher "Kit" Walker Jr.aka The Phantom, comic book superhero
- Kit Walkercharacter on TV's "American Horror Story: Asylum"
- Christopher "Kit" Rodrigueza character in the "Young Wizards" series
- Kit Cloudkickercharacter in Disney's animated series TaleSpin
- Kit Ramseya main character in film "Bowfinger"
- Kit Nelsoncharacter on TV's "Alcatraz"
- Kit aka Prince Charmingcharacter in 2015 Disney film Cinderella
- Kit Fistocharacter in the Star Wars series
- Kit Oxenfordcharacter in Ken Follett's "Whiteout"
- Kit Carrutherscharacter in the film "Badlands"
- Christopher "Kit" Herondalecharacter in the Dark Artifices series by Cassandra Clare
- "Kit and Kitty"a novel by R. D. Blackmore
- Kit Katchocolate bar
- Kitterm for a young animal such as a fox