Boys' name · since 1978
Kristapher
Kristapher has 69 recorded births since 1978 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1983 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 69
- total births
- 1978–2013
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 52%
- born in that decade
Kristapher sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 69 recorded since 1978.
Kristapher has 69 recorded births among boys since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 2013.
- 69 total births
- 1978–2013 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 52% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kristapher's 69 recorded births place it above 56% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kristapher's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kristapher's full recorded timeline at 1988, 46% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 54% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1981, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1983 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kristapher popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–2013
- Peak year (1983)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Kristapher by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kristapher's strongest decade.
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Kristapher births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
36 births
- 1990s
1990s
21 births
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 36 births (52% of all-time use).
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- Kristapher's decade-level peak was the 1980s (36 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kristapher: Baby Name Since 1978 - 69 Births, Peak 1983." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kristapher. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kristapher draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.