Christipher
Christipher was last recorded in 2009, when 7 babies were given it; 620 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christipher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christipher?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,058, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1987, the peak
Christipher peaked in 1987, when 35 boys were given it, #1,830 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #10,058 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,304 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,740 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,182 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,811 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,610 | 5.2 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,276 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,622 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,400 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,712 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 13 | #4,646 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,996 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,769 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,044 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,627 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,661 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,441 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,699 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,039 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,830 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,169 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,079 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,938 | 15.5 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,148 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,937 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,425 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,653 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,321 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,584 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,012 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,256 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,697 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,475 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,879 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,094 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,037 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,320 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,358 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,149 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,027 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christipher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christipher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christipher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christipher, and how old are they?
An estimated 581 Americans named Christipher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 35 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,432 people named Christipher (7 women and girls, 1,425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 591 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,083,339 babies since 1880, Christipher is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,748 babies recorded by SSA was a Christipher (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 |
| Christpher | 1,304 | under 5 | 1986 |
| Christapher | 701 | under 5 | 1990 |
| Christipher | 620 | under 5 | 1987 |
| Christophor | 537 | under 5 | 1971 |
| Christophr | 404 | under 5 | 1972 |
| Chrystopher | 383 | under 5 | 1995 |
| Christepher | 287 | under 5 | 1988 |
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 Christipher
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 Christipher and names like it
- Compare Christipher and ChristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChristipher peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christipher since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Christipher.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Christipher alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.