Christoper
Christoper was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,923 among boys’ names; 3,161 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,880 Americans named Christoper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 35 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christoper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christoper?
#10,923 among boys’ names, 2025
Christoper fell from #8,158 in 2015 to #10,923 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 3.5 per million.
117 babies in 1985, the peak
Christoper peaked in 1985, when 117 boys were given it, #824 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,923 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,563 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,120 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,511 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,520 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,671 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,552 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,158 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,649 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,203 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 9 | #8,274 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,711 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,156 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,132 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,420 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,614 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,117 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,326 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,823 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,446 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,362 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,152 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,869 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,671 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,399 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,551 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,216 | 19.5 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,141 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 55 | #1,640 | 28.5 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,164 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,596 | 27.5 |
| 1991 | 66 | #1,393 | 32.7 |
| 1990 | 67 | #1,358 | 32.6 |
| 1989 | 103 | #1,006 | 51.5 |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,023 | 48.1 |
| 1987 | 104 | #928 | 55.7 |
| 1986 | 95 | #936 | 51.6 |
| 1985 | 117 | #824 | 63.3 |
| 1984 | 105 | #860 | 58.2 |
| 1983 | 102 | #868 | 56.9 |
| 1982 | 112 | #837 | 61.7 |
| 1981 | 88 | #961 | 49.1 |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,011 | 44.8 |
| 1979 | 86 | #955 | 50.0 |
| 1978 | 86 | #933 | 52.4 |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,014 | 43.8 |
| 1976 | 90 | #878 | 57.4 |
| 1975 | 72 | #966 | 46.1 |
| 1974 | 91 | #842 | 57.9 |
| 1973 | 86 | #854 | 55.2 |
| 1972 | 79 | #902 | 48.7 |
| 1971 | 90 | #860 | 50.9 |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,054 | 32.3 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,136 | 26.3 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,050 | 28.8 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,033 | 28.7 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,202 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,112 | 24.2 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,312 | 18.1 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,139 | 22.6 |
| 1962 | 33 | #1,367 | 16.0 |
| 1961 | 32 | #1,409 | 15.1 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,588 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,323 | 16.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,189 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,201 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,826 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,911 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,128 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,561 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,140 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,392 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,805 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christoper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christoper has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christoper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christoper, and how old are they?
2,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 3,161 Americans ever recorded as Christoper. The median Christoper alive today is 43 years old; half are between 35 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 6,743 people named Christoper (19 women and girls, 6,724 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 229 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 999 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 369 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 77 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Christoper born?
The states with the most babies named Christoper are California, New York and Texas, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 391 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 180 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 177 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 76 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Christoper is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christoper is most over-represented in California: since 1950 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Christoper with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,645 babies since 1880, Christoper is the most given (87% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christoper | 3,161 | 6 | 1985 |
| Christohper | 423 | under 5 | 1983 |
| Christpoher | 61 | 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 Christoper
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Chistopher | 1,446 | |
| Shaun | 73,610 | |
| Christpher | 1,304 |
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 Christoper and names like it
- Compare Christoper and ChristohperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChristoper peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christoper since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Christoper.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Christoper alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.