Meaning not yet researched.
Kristoffer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #457 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #457 in 1978; #7,025 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristoffer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,025 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #457.
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Kristoffer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #457 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 305 (1978).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Kristoffer, making it the 7,025th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,047 places from #8,072 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 10 boys named Kristoffer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #457, reached in 1978. That year also had the most boys given the name: 305. For comparison, it was #4,979 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristoffer in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 3,940 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,275 babies named Kristoffer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 125 US boys were named Kristoffer; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christopher (2,079,103 babies since 1880), Kristofer (9,791 babies since 1880), Cristobal (8,001 babies since 1880) and Christophe (4,476 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Chris and Kris.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 | — | — | 12 | #7,025 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,072 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,317 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,678 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,923 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,593 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #7,963 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,225 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,525 |
| 2016 | — | — | 21 | #4,707 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #4,979 |
| 2014 | — | — | 16 | #5,609 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,402 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,959 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,404 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,592 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,602 |
| 2008 | — | — | 44 | #2,774 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,847 |
| 2006 | — | — | 27 | #3,736 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,878 |
| 2004 | — | — | 43 | #2,554 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,708 |
| 2002 | — | — | 48 | #2,212 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,772 |
| 2000 | — | — | 52 | #1,986 |
| 1999 | — | — | 48 | #2,010 |
| 1998 | — | — | 53 | #1,864 |
| 1997 | — | — | 54 | #1,784 |
| 1996 | — | — | 69 | #1,471 |
| 1995 | — | — | 77 | #1,344 |
| 1994 | — | — | 74 | #1,357 |
| 1993 | — | — | 89 | #1,193 |
| 1992 | — | — | 83 | #1,240 |
| 1991 | — | — | 114 | #1,010 |
| 1990 | — | — | 111 | #1,004 |
| 1989 | — | — | 102 | #1,021 |
| 1988 | — | — | 107 | #926 |
| 1987 | — | — | 99 | #950 |
| 1986 | — | — | 97 | #929 |
| 1985 | — | — | 119 | #818 |
| 1984 | — | — | 115 | #816 |
| 1983 | — | — | 127 | #775 |
| 1982 | — | — | 142 | #730 |
| 1981 | — | — | 161 | #684 |
| 1980 | — | — | 142 | #738 |
| 1979 | — | — | 139 | #734 |
| 1978 | — | — | 305 | #457 |
| 1977 | — | — | 223 | #561 |
| 1976 | — | — | 87 | #891 |
| 1975 | — | — | 109 | #798 |
| 1974 | — | — | 156 | #646 |
| 1973 | — | — | 112 | #759 |
| 1972 | — | — | 77 | #914 |
| 1971 | — | — | 42 | #1,302 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,769 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,189 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,531 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,283 |
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).