Chirstopher
Chirstopher was last recorded in 2008, when 9 babies were given it; 1,051 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chirstopher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chirstopher?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,424, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1981, the peak
Chirstopher peaked in 1981, when 57 boys were given it, #1,210 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #8,424 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,156 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,743 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,969 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,949 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,649 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,407 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,481 | 4.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,744 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,129 | 7.0 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 12 | #4,522 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,480 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,067 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,951 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 51 | #1,425 | 27.3 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,344 | 28.8 |
| 1985 | 50 | #1,373 | 27.1 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,298 | 28.3 |
| 1983 | 46 | #1,381 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,489 | 23.1 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,210 | 31.8 |
| 1980 | 46 | #1,395 | 25.8 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,374 | 26.7 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,414 | 26.2 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,412 | 25.6 |
| 1976 | 41 | #1,392 | 26.1 |
| 1975 | 40 | #1,384 | 25.6 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,292 | 27.3 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,518 | 20.5 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,605 | 17.9 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,829 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,069 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,866 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,120 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,043 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,976 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,195 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,082 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,704 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,698 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,926 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,386 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chirstopher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chirstopher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chirstopher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chirstopher, and how old are they?
An estimated 963 Americans named Chirstopher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 40 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 767 people named Chirstopher (0 women and girls, 767 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 986 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,080,713 babies since 1880, Chirstopher is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,748 babies recorded by SSA was a Chirstopher (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | 2,079,103 | 4,748 | 1984 |
| Chirstopher | 1,051 | under 5 | 1981 |
| Chrystopher | 383 | under 5 | 1995 |
| Chrsitopher | 176 | under 5 | 1986 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chirstopher
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Christpher | 1,304 | |
| Christoher | 1,094 | |
| Brain | 4,606 | |
| Chistopher | 1,446 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chirstopher and names like it
- Compare Chirstopher and ChristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChirstopher peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chirstopher since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Chirstopher.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chirstopher alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.