Meaning not yet researched.
Cristopher: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #470 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #470 in 2007; #1,426 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cristopher in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,426 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #470.
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Cristopher: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 boys in 2025. Peak: #470 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 576 (2007).
In 2025, 126 US boys were named Cristopher, making it the 1,426th most common boys’ name of the year, down 195 places from #1,231 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 163 boys named Cristopher in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #470, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 576. For comparison, it was #959 in 2015 and #2,234 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cristopher in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 12 babies. In all, 11,898 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,204 babies named Cristopher.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,484 US boys were named Cristopher; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,556 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cristopher ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #699 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), Kristopher (63,548 babies since 1880) and Cristofer (4,323 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cristoffer 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: Cristoffer (5).
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 Cristopher 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 7 | #699 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,045 | #663 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,106 | #635 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,123 | #594 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,159 | #1,357 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,174 | #721 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,675 | #1,114 |
| New York | 5 | #1,818 | #674 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 126 | #1,426 |
| 2024 | — | — | 163 | #1,231 |
| 2023 | — | — | 124 | #1,458 |
| 2022 | — | — | 149 | #1,285 |
| 2021 | — | — | 122 | #1,471 |
| 2020 | — | — | 146 | #1,259 |
| 2019 | — | — | 151 | #1,244 |
| 2018 | — | — | 145 | #1,265 |
| 2017 | — | — | 171 | #1,122 |
| 2016 | — | — | 187 | #1,058 |
| 2015 | — | — | 215 | #959 |
| 2014 | — | — | 224 | #938 |
| 2013 | — | — | 248 | #861 |
| 2012 | — | — | 289 | #784 |
| 2011 | — | — | 377 | #624 |
| 2010 | — | — | 417 | #597 |
| 2009 | — | — | 521 | #516 |
| 2008 | — | — | 553 | #495 |
| 2007 | — | — | 576 | #470 |
| 2006 | — | — | 519 | #501 |
| 2005 | — | — | 372 | #606 |
| 2004 | — | — | 380 | #585 |
| 2003 | — | — | 373 | #586 |
| 2002 | — | — | 306 | #636 |
| 2001 | — | — | 289 | #646 |
| 2000 | — | — | 315 | #608 |
| 1999 | — | — | 219 | #740 |
| 1998 | — | — | 232 | #715 |
| 1997 | — | — | 241 | #675 |
| 1996 | — | — | 199 | #752 |
| 1995 | — | — | 211 | #740 |
| 1994 | — | — | 170 | #812 |
| 1993 | — | — | 176 | #797 |
| 1992 | — | — | 186 | #765 |
| 1991 | — | — | 169 | #793 |
| 1990 | — | — | 189 | #741 |
| 1989 | — | — | 193 | #708 |
| 1988 | — | — | 153 | #764 |
| 1987 | — | — | 152 | #743 |
| 1986 | — | — | 134 | #783 |
| 1985 | — | — | 134 | #765 |
| 1984 | — | — | 124 | #775 |
| 1983 | — | — | 117 | #810 |
| 1982 | — | — | 109 | #849 |
| 1981 | — | — | 105 | #865 |
| 1980 | — | — | 86 | #970 |
| 1979 | — | — | 84 | #966 |
| 1978 | — | — | 79 | #971 |
| 1977 | — | — | 85 | #925 |
| 1976 | — | — | 74 | #970 |
| 1975 | — | — | 66 | #1,011 |
| 1974 | — | — | 71 | #969 |
| 1973 | — | — | 77 | #915 |
| 1972 | — | — | 72 | #954 |
| 1971 | — | — | 84 | #889 |
| 1970 | — | — | 68 | #981 |
| 1969 | — | — | 48 | #1,128 |
| 1968 | — | — | 51 | #1,035 |
| 1967 | — | — | 39 | #1,200 |
| 1966 | — | — | 38 | #1,220 |
| 1965 | — | — | 27 | #1,490 |
| 1964 | — | — | 25 | #1,589 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,058 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,055 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,011 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,344 |
| 1959 | — | — | 22 | #1,729 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,676 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,674 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,605 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,257 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,003 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,751 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,127 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,234 |
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).