Krystopher
Krystopher was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 729 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krystopher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Krystopher?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,391, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1990, the peak
Krystopher peaked in 1990, when 35 boys were given it, #2,106 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,391 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,315 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,330 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,211 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,352 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,407 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,349 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,531 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,540 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,329 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #7,334 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,866 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,295 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,616 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,678 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,172 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,123 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,735 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,449 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,701 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,207 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,127 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,571 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,589 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,773 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,938 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,306 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,344 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,886 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,285 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,315 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,537 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,784 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,106 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,572 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,275 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,896 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,356 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,521 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,394 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,762 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,104 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,827 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,928 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,130 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Krystopher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krystopher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Krystopher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krystopher, and how old are they?
An estimated 708 Americans named Krystopher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 567 people named Krystopher (8 women and girls, 559 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 692 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Krystopher?
Krystopher is a less common spelling of Kristopher: SSA has recorded 729 Krystopher and 63,548 Kristopher since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 78,731 babies since 1880, Krystopher is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 316 babies recorded by SSA was a Krystopher (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristopher | 63,548 | 172 | 1978 |
| Cristopher | 11,898 | 126 | 2007 |
| Khristopher | 2,318 | 18 | 1991 |
| Krystopher | 729 | under 5 | 1990 |
| Krystofer | 169 | under 5 | 1995 |
| 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 Krystopher
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 Krystopher and names like it
- Compare Krystopher and KristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKrystopher peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krystopher since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Krystopher.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Krystopher alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.