Cristopher
Cristopher was given to 126 boys in 2025, #1,426 among boys’ names; 11,898 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,500 Americans named Cristopher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristopher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cristopher mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Cristopher is “a male given name from English, of modern usage”
Borrowed from English Christopher. Doublet of Cristóbal.
/ˈkɾistofeɾ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cristopher?
#1,426 among boys’ names, 2025
Cristopher fell from #959 in 2015 to #1,426 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.07 per 1,000.
576 babies in 2007, the peak
Cristopher peaked in 2007, when 576 boys were given it, #470 among boys’ names. The 126 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,426 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 163 | #1,231 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,458 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 149 | #1,285 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,471 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 146 | #1,259 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,244 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,265 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 171 | #1,122 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,058 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #959 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 224 | #938 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 248 | #861 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 289 | #784 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 377 | #624 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 417 | #597 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 521 | #516 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 553 | #495 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 576 | #470 | 0.28 |
| 2006 | 519 | #501 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 372 | #606 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 380 | #585 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 373 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 306 | #636 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 289 | #646 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 315 | #608 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 219 | #738 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 232 | #715 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 241 | #675 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 199 | #750 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 211 | #737 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 170 | #810 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 176 | #795 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 186 | #763 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 169 | #789 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 189 | #737 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 193 | #705 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 153 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 152 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 134 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 134 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 124 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 117 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 109 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 105 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 86 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 84 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 79 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 85 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 74 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,011 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 71 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 77 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 72 | #954 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 84 | #889 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 68 | #981 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,128 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,035 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,199 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,219 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 27 | #1,489 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,588 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,054 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,010 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,728 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,233 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristopher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristopher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cristopher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristopher, and how old are they?
11,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 11,898 Americans ever recorded as Cristopher. The median Cristopher alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 10,195 people named Cristopher (42 women and girls, 10,153 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 129 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 935 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,890 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
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 Cristopher born?
The states with the most babies named Cristopher are California, Texas and Colorado, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,045 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,106 | 1.4× |
| Colorado | 7 | #699 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,675 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,159 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,174 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #1,818 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,123 | 0.8× |
Where Cristopher is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristopher is most over-represented in California: since 1950 it was given 1.8 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 Cristopher 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 82,985 babies since 1880, Cristopher is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 126 of their 396 babies (32%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristopher | 63,548 | 172 | 1978 |
| Cristopher | 11,898 | 126 | 2007 |
| Cristofer | 4,323 | 80 | 2008 |
| Khristopher | 2,318 | 18 | 1991 |
| Krystopher | 729 | under 5 | 1990 |
| Cristofher | 100 | under 5 | 2009 |
| Kristapher | 69 | 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 Cristopher
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 Cristopher and names like it
- Compare Cristopher and KristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCristopher peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristopher since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Cristopher: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Cristopher.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cristopher alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.