Kristopher — #1170 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kristopher

The Social Security Administration has registered 63,075 babies named Kristopher between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kristopher currently holds the #1170 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 2,525 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kristopher performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 20,068 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kristopher shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,852 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kristopher in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kristopher in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 63,075 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.