Meaning not yet researched.
Cristofer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #815 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #815 in 2006; #1,935 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cristofer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,935 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #815.
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Cristofer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 boys in 2025. Peak: #815 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 263 (2008).
In 2025, 80 US boys were named Cristofer, making it the 1,935th most common boys’ name of the year, down 211 places from #1,724 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 96 boys named Cristofer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #815, reached in 2006. The most boys given the name in a single year was 263, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,730 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cristofer in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 8 babies. In all, 4,323 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,957 babies named Cristofer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 826 US boys were named Cristofer; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,351 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cristofer ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,056 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cristopher (11,898 babies since 1880), Kristofer (9,791 babies since 1880) and Kristoffer (3,940 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Cristofer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,056 | #995 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,357 | #1,256 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,379 | #1,566 |
| California | 10 | #1,612 | #1,330 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 80 | #1,935 |
| 2024 | — | — | 96 | #1,724 |
| 2023 | — | — | 74 | #2,034 |
| 2022 | — | — | 70 | #2,121 |
| 2021 | — | — | 88 | #1,791 |
| 2020 | — | — | 90 | #1,719 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,113 |
| 2018 | — | — | 88 | #1,748 |
| 2017 | — | — | 81 | #1,830 |
| 2016 | — | — | 91 | #1,707 |
| 2015 | — | — | 89 | #1,730 |
| 2014 | — | — | 90 | #1,692 |
| 2013 | — | — | 126 | #1,346 |
| 2012 | — | — | 144 | #1,227 |
| 2011 | — | — | 184 | #1,032 |
| 2010 | — | — | 200 | #984 |
| 2009 | — | — | 254 | #844 |
| 2008 | — | — | 263 | #833 |
| 2007 | — | — | 261 | #821 |
| 2006 | — | — | 250 | #815 |
| 2005 | — | — | 189 | #928 |
| 2004 | — | — | 167 | #992 |
| 2003 | — | — | 165 | #972 |
| 2002 | — | — | 150 | #1,023 |
| 2001 | — | — | 129 | #1,100 |
| 2000 | — | — | 129 | #1,089 |
| 1999 | — | — | 84 | #1,396 |
| 1998 | — | — | 71 | #1,527 |
| 1997 | — | — | 68 | #1,522 |
| 1996 | — | — | 55 | #1,711 |
| 1995 | — | — | 45 | #1,890 |
| 1994 | — | — | 47 | #1,831 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,170 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,222 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,556 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,266 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,553 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,874 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,577 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,297 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,244 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,545 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,033 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #2,994 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,039 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,859 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,904 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,771 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,919 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,620 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,145 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,200 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,578 |
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).