Meaning not yet researched.
Christoper: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #824 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #824 in 1985; #10,927 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Christoper in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,927 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #824.
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Christoper: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #824 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 117 (1985).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Christoper, making it the 10,927th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #824, reached in 1985. That year also had the most boys given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #8,163 in 2015 and #2,806 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christoper in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 8 babies. In all, 3,161 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 998 babies named Christoper.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42 US boys were named Christoper; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Christohper, Christhoper and Christopehr are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Christohper (423), Christhoper (88), Christopehr (15), Christopoher (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Christoper in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #10,927 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,568 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,126 |
| 2019 | — | — | 5 | #12,517 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #12,526 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #12,558 |
| 2015 | — | — | 9 | #8,163 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,654 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,207 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,280 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,716 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,162 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,134 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,423 |
| 2007 | — | — | 29 | #3,616 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,121 |
| 2005 | — | — | 30 | #3,330 |
| 2004 | — | — | 17 | #4,828 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,451 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,367 |
| 2001 | — | — | 28 | #3,157 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,875 |
| 1999 | — | — | 32 | #2,675 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,402 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,555 |
| 1996 | — | — | 37 | #2,221 |
| 1995 | — | — | 38 | #2,146 |
| 1994 | — | — | 55 | #1,645 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,169 |
| 1992 | — | — | 55 | #1,601 |
| 1991 | — | — | 66 | #1,399 |
| 1990 | — | — | 67 | #1,363 |
| 1989 | — | — | 103 | #1,009 |
| 1988 | — | — | 92 | #1,025 |
| 1987 | — | — | 104 | #929 |
| 1986 | — | — | 95 | #937 |
| 1985 | — | — | 117 | #824 |
| 1984 | — | — | 105 | #860 |
| 1983 | — | — | 102 | #868 |
| 1982 | — | — | 112 | #837 |
| 1981 | — | — | 88 | #961 |
| 1980 | — | — | 80 | #1,011 |
| 1979 | — | — | 86 | #955 |
| 1978 | — | — | 86 | #933 |
| 1977 | — | — | 72 | #1,014 |
| 1976 | — | — | 90 | #878 |
| 1975 | — | — | 72 | #966 |
| 1974 | — | — | 91 | #842 |
| 1973 | — | — | 86 | #854 |
| 1972 | — | — | 79 | #902 |
| 1971 | — | — | 90 | #860 |
| 1970 | — | — | 60 | #1,054 |
| 1969 | — | — | 47 | #1,136 |
| 1968 | — | — | 50 | #1,050 |
| 1967 | — | — | 50 | #1,033 |
| 1966 | — | — | 39 | #1,203 |
| 1965 | — | — | 45 | #1,112 |
| 1964 | — | — | 36 | #1,313 |
| 1963 | — | — | 46 | #1,140 |
| 1962 | — | — | 33 | #1,368 |
| 1961 | — | — | 32 | #1,410 |
| 1960 | — | — | 26 | #1,589 |
| 1959 | — | — | 35 | #1,324 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,190 |
| 1957 | — | — | 14 | #2,202 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,827 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,912 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,129 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,562 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,142 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,393 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,806 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).