Cristofer
Cristofer was given to 80 boys in 2025, #1,935 among boys’ names; 4,323 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,250 Americans named Cristofer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristofer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cristofer?
#1,935 among boys’ names, 2025
Cristofer fell from #1,730 in 2015 to #1,935 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 46.4 to 46.8 per million.
263 babies in 2008, the peak
Cristofer peaked in 2008, when 263 boys were given it, #833 among boys’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #1,935 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 96 | #1,724 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,033 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,120 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 88 | #1,791 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 90 | #1,719 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,112 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 88 | #1,748 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 81 | #1,830 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #1,730 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 90 | #1,692 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 126 | #1,346 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,227 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 184 | #1,032 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 200 | #984 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 254 | #844 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 263 | #833 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 261 | #821 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 250 | #815 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 189 | #928 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 167 | #991 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 165 | #971 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 150 | #1,022 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,098 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 129 | #1,087 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,393 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 71 | #1,524 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 68 | #1,519 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,708 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 45 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,826 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,165 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,217 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,261 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,547 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,573 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,294 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,993 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,037 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,857 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,902 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,917 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,618 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,198 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,576 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristofer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristofer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cristofer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristofer, and how old are they?
4,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,323 Americans ever recorded as Cristofer. The median Cristofer alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,353 people named Cristofer (21 women and girls, 3,332 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,797 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 68 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 391 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
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 Cristofer born?
The states with the most babies named Cristofer are Texas, California and Florida, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,357 | 1.2× |
| California | 10 | #1,612 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,379 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,056 | 1.4× |
Where Cristofer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristofer is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.4 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 Cristofer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Cristofer?
Cristofer is a less common spelling of Kristopher: SSA has recorded 4,323 Cristofer and 63,548 Kristopher since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 94,574 babies since 1880, Cristofer is the fourth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 421 babies (19%), the third most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristopher | 63,548 | 172 | 1978 |
| Cristopher | 11,898 | 126 | 2007 |
| Kristofer | 9,791 | 31 | 1978 |
| Cristofer | 4,323 | 80 | 2008 |
| Kristoffer | 3,940 | 12 | 1978 |
| Kristofor | 805 | under 5 | 1984 |
| Krystofer | 169 | under 5 | 1995 |
| Cristofher | 100 | under 5 | 2009 |
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 Cristofer
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 Cristofer and names like it
- Compare Cristofer and KristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCristofer peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristofer since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Cristofer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cristofer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.