Chrystopher
Chrystopher was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 383 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chrystopher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chrystopher?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,045, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1995, the peak
Chrystopher peaked in 1995, when 16 boys were given it, #3,882 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #11,045 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,980 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,646 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,555 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,392 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,419 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,993 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,275 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,076 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,752 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 | #7,786 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,283 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,688 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,742 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,328 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,594 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,813 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,611 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,536 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,926 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,713 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,918 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,272 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,115 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,882 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,934 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,747 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,289 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,833 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,199 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,564 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,942 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,220 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,170 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,239 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,968 | 5.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,760 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,034 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,561 | 4.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,949 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,605 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,344 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chrystopher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chrystopher 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 Chrystopher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chrystopher, and how old are they?
An estimated 370 Americans named Chrystopher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 280 people named Chrystopher (0 women and girls, 280 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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).
How common is the spelling Chrystopher?
Chrystopher is a less common spelling of Christopher: SSA has recorded 383 Chrystopher and 2,079,103 Christopher since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,084,103 babies since 1880, Chrystopher is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,748 babies recorded by SSA was a Chrystopher (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 |
| Chirstopher | 1,051 | under 5 | 1981 |
| 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 |
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 Chrystopher
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 Chrystopher and names like it
- Compare Chrystopher and ChristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChrystopher peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chrystopher since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Chrystopher.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chrystopher alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.