Kristofer
Kristofer was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,621 among boys’ names; 9,791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,250 Americans named Kristofer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 28 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristofer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristofer mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Kristofer is “a male given name, a less common form of Kristoffer”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristofer?
#3,621 among boys’ names, 2025
Kristofer fell from #2,467 in 2015 to #3,621 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 18.1 per million.
349 babies in 1978, the peak
Kristofer peaked in 1978, when 349 boys were given it, #422 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,621 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,491 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,948 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,733 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,099 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,957 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,834 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,271 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 52 | #2,471 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,456 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,467 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,244 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,504 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 76 | #1,901 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 96 | #1,607 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,704 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 75 | #1,917 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,291 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,394 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,261 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,438 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 142 | #1,117 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,138 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 160 | #985 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 167 | #928 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 193 | #831 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 176 | #859 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 185 | #814 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 214 | #727 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 218 | #720 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 229 | #696 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 298 | #604 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 313 | #582 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 322 | #567 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 316 | #568 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 340 | #542 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 328 | #529 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 329 | #505 | 0.17 |
| 1987 | 346 | #476 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 301 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 273 | #528 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 240 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 244 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 284 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 231 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 219 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 247 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 349 | #422 | 0.21 |
| 1977 | 345 | #425 | 0.21 |
| 1976 | 210 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 175 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 193 | #578 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 141 | #675 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 107 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 73 | #955 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,138 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 36 | #1,339 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 33 | #1,354 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,626 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,387 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,649 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,525 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,866 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,734 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,915 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,265 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,129 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,164 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,560 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristofer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristofer 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 Kristofer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristofer, and how old are they?
9,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 9,791 Americans ever recorded as Kristofer. The median Kristofer alive today is 36 years old; half are between 28 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 7,552 people named Kristofer (26 women and girls, 7,526 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 129 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,040 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 540 |
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 Kristofer born?
The states with the most babies named Kristofer are California, Texas and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,263 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 807 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 578 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 429 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 419 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 363 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 291 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 260 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 257 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 216 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Kristofer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristofer is most over-represented in Washington: since 1945 it was given 1.3 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 Kristofer 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 82,676 babies since 1880, Kristofer is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 295 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristopher | 63,548 | 172 | 1978 |
| 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 Kristofer
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 Kristofer and names like it
- Compare Kristofer and KristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKristofer peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristofer since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Kristofer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kristofer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristofer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.