Meaning not yet researched.
Kristofer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #422 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #422 in 1978; #3,622 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristofer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,622 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #422.
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Kristofer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #422 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 349 (1978).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Kristofer, making it the 3,622nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 129 places from #3,493 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 33 boys named Kristofer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #422, reached in 1978. That year also had the most boys given the name: 349. For comparison, it was #2,468 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristofer in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 5 babies. In all, 9,791 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,795 babies named Kristofer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 384 US boys were named Kristofer; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christopher (2,079,103 babies since 1880), Cristobal (8,001 babies since 1880), Christophe (4,476 babies since 1880) and Kristoffer (3,940 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristofor, Krystofer and Cristhofer are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chris and Kris.
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: Kristofor (805), Krystofer (169), Cristhofer (75), Kristafer (43), Kristifer (28), Krystoffer (5), Crystofer (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 31 | #3,622 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,493 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,951 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,735 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,100 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,958 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,835 |
| 2018 | — | — | 35 | #3,274 |
| 2017 | — | — | 52 | #2,472 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,456 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,468 |
| 2014 | — | — | 60 | #2,246 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,506 |
| 2012 | — | — | 76 | #1,902 |
| 2011 | — | — | 96 | #1,607 |
| 2010 | — | — | 90 | #1,704 |
| 2009 | — | — | 75 | #1,918 |
| 2008 | — | — | 135 | #1,291 |
| 2007 | — | — | 118 | #1,394 |
| 2006 | — | — | 133 | #1,261 |
| 2005 | — | — | 103 | #1,439 |
| 2004 | — | — | 142 | #1,118 |
| 2003 | — | — | 133 | #1,139 |
| 2002 | — | — | 160 | #986 |
| 2001 | — | — | 167 | #929 |
| 2000 | — | — | 193 | #833 |
| 1999 | — | — | 176 | #861 |
| 1998 | — | — | 185 | #815 |
| 1997 | — | — | 214 | #728 |
| 1996 | — | — | 218 | #721 |
| 1995 | — | — | 229 | #699 |
| 1994 | — | — | 298 | #605 |
| 1993 | — | — | 313 | #583 |
| 1992 | — | — | 322 | #569 |
| 1991 | — | — | 316 | #568 |
| 1990 | — | — | 340 | #543 |
| 1989 | — | — | 328 | #530 |
| 1988 | — | — | 329 | #505 |
| 1987 | — | — | 346 | #476 |
| 1986 | — | — | 301 | #505 |
| 1985 | — | — | 273 | #528 |
| 1984 | — | — | 240 | #556 |
| 1983 | — | — | 244 | #537 |
| 1982 | — | — | 284 | #504 |
| 1981 | — | — | 231 | #563 |
| 1980 | — | — | 219 | #580 |
| 1979 | — | — | 247 | #543 |
| 1978 | — | — | 349 | #422 |
| 1977 | — | — | 345 | #425 |
| 1976 | — | — | 210 | #555 |
| 1975 | — | — | 175 | #617 |
| 1974 | — | — | 193 | #578 |
| 1973 | — | — | 141 | #675 |
| 1972 | — | — | 107 | #774 |
| 1971 | — | — | 73 | #955 |
| 1970 | — | — | 53 | #1,138 |
| 1969 | — | — | 36 | #1,339 |
| 1968 | — | — | 33 | #1,354 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,627 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,388 |
| 1965 | — | — | 23 | #1,650 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,526 |
| 1963 | — | — | 19 | #1,867 |
| 1962 | — | — | 22 | #1,735 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,916 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,266 |
| 1959 | — | — | 12 | #2,481 |
| 1958 | — | — | 15 | #2,130 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,570 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,875 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,278 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #2,983 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,559 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,165 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,561 |
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).