Meaning not yet researched.
Cristobal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 105 in 2025. Its best rank was #708 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #708 in 2001; #1,610 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cristobal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,610 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #708.
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Cristobal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 105 boys in 2025. Peak: #708 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 249 (2001).
In 2025, 105 US boys were named Cristobal, making it the 1,610th most common boys’ name of the year, down 127 places from #1,483 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 122 boys named Cristobal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #708, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 249. For comparison, it was #1,149 in 2015 and #1,831 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cristobal in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 8 babies. In all, 8,001 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,858 babies named Cristobal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,224 US boys were named Cristobal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 145. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,267 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cristobal ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #793 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Christopher (2,079,103 babies since 1880), Kristofer (9,791 babies since 1880), Christophe (4,476 babies since 1880) and Kristoffer (3,940 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cristabel and Kristobal 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cristabel (220), Kristobal (11).
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 Cristobal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 7 | #793 | #739 |
| California | 25 | #912 | #764 |
| Texas | 26 | #941 | #585 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,207 | #919 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 105 | #1,610 |
| 2024 | — | — | 122 | #1,483 |
| 2023 | — | — | 133 | #1,391 |
| 2022 | — | — | 125 | #1,449 |
| 2021 | — | — | 133 | #1,380 |
| 2020 | — | — | 113 | #1,499 |
| 2019 | — | — | 119 | #1,462 |
| 2018 | — | — | 127 | #1,387 |
| 2017 | — | — | 102 | #1,584 |
| 2016 | — | — | 145 | #1,262 |
| 2015 | — | — | 164 | #1,149 |
| 2014 | — | — | 143 | #1,252 |
| 2013 | — | — | 135 | #1,287 |
| 2012 | — | — | 152 | #1,190 |
| 2011 | — | — | 151 | #1,174 |
| 2010 | — | — | 147 | #1,209 |
| 2009 | — | — | 181 | #1,049 |
| 2008 | — | — | 160 | #1,137 |
| 2007 | — | — | 215 | #919 |
| 2006 | — | — | 183 | #1,004 |
| 2005 | — | — | 175 | #988 |
| 2004 | — | — | 162 | #1,013 |
| 2003 | — | — | 176 | #934 |
| 2002 | — | — | 159 | #989 |
| 2001 | — | — | 249 | #708 |
| 2000 | — | — | 198 | #813 |
| 1999 | — | — | 146 | #978 |
| 1998 | — | — | 129 | #1,045 |
| 1997 | — | — | 148 | #920 |
| 1996 | — | — | 136 | #952 |
| 1995 | — | — | 147 | #914 |
| 1994 | — | — | 144 | #910 |
| 1993 | — | — | 141 | #905 |
| 1992 | — | — | 115 | #1,017 |
| 1991 | — | — | 118 | #987 |
| 1990 | — | — | 125 | #924 |
| 1989 | — | — | 107 | #985 |
| 1988 | — | — | 80 | #1,120 |
| 1987 | — | — | 87 | #1,017 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,800 | 82 | #1,024 |
| 1985 | — | — | 83 | #999 |
| 1984 | — | — | 84 | #969 |
| 1983 | — | — | 96 | #896 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,834 | 104 | #872 |
| 1981 | — | — | 96 | #916 |
| 1980 | — | — | 82 | #997 |
| 1979 | — | — | 86 | #956 |
| 1978 | — | — | 73 | #1,016 |
| 1977 | — | — | 74 | #1,000 |
| 1976 | — | — | 60 | #1,085 |
| 1975 | — | — | 74 | #955 |
| 1974 | — | — | 64 | #1,026 |
| 1973 | — | — | 63 | #1,015 |
| 1972 | — | — | 63 | #1,015 |
| 1971 | — | — | 45 | #1,240 |
| 1970 | — | — | 47 | #1,207 |
| 1969 | — | — | 53 | #1,068 |
| 1968 | — | — | 42 | #1,168 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,416 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,377 |
| 1965 | — | — | 36 | #1,279 |
| 1964 | — | — | 29 | #1,466 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,380 |
| 1962 | — | — | 35 | #1,318 |
| 1961 | — | — | 30 | #1,469 |
| 1960 | — | — | 24 | #1,665 |
| 1959 | — | — | 37 | #1,280 |
| 1958 | — | — | 29 | #1,451 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,682 |
| 1956 | — | — | 24 | #1,614 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,160 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,906 |
| 1953 | — | — | 23 | #1,599 |
| 1952 | — | — | 30 | #1,382 |
| 1951 | — | — | 21 | #1,653 |
| 1950 | — | — | 17 | #1,831 |
| 1949 | — | — | 16 | #1,880 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,664 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,746 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,300 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,795 |
| 1944 | — | — | 18 | #1,642 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,649 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,171 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,516 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,006 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #1,976 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,103 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,724 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,894 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,671 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,431 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,013 |
| 1932 | — | — | 23 | #1,474 |
| 1931 | — | — | 19 | #1,651 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,655 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,021 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,184 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,886 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,763 |
| 1925 | — | — | 26 | #1,461 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,790 |
| 1923 | — | — | 17 | #1,960 |
| 1922 | — | — | 19 | #1,838 |
| 1921 | — | — | 22 | #1,660 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,557 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,172 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,165 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,639 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,588 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,805 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,355 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,130 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,341 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,034 |
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).