Christifer
Christifer was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 179 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christifer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christifer?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,160, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1983, the peak
Christifer peaked in 1983, when 13 boys were given it, #3,266 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #11,160 | 2.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,106 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,177 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,333 | 3.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,113 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,933 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,933 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,198 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,867 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,841 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 8 | #4,924 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,092 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,061 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,266 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,755 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,622 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,636 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,474 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,643 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,892 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,761 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,253 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,101 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christifer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christifer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christifer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christifer, and how old are they?
An estimated 169 Americans named Christifer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 33 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 243 people named Christifer (2 women and girls, 241 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,687 babies since 1880, Christifer is the fifth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 22 babies recorded by SSA was a Christifer (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christofer | 3,856 | 22 | 2007 |
| Christpher | 1,304 | under 5 | 1986 |
| Christoffer | 728 | under 5 | 1990 |
| Christipher | 620 | under 5 | 1987 |
| Christifer | 179 | under 5 | 1983 |
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 Christifer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Christifer and names like it
- Compare Christifer and ChristoferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChristifer peaked in 1983.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Christifer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Christifer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.