Meaning not yet researched.
Kristopher: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 172 in 2025. Its best rank was #104 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #104 in 1978; #1,190 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristopher in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,190 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #104.
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Kristopher: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 172 boys in 2025. Peak: #104 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 2,525 (1978).
In 2025, 172 US boys were named Kristopher, making it the 1,190th most common boys’ name of the year, down 22 places from #1,168 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 179 boys named Kristopher in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #104, reached in 1978. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,525. For comparison, it was #593 in 2015 and #1,633 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristopher in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 6 babies. In all, 63,548 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 20,229 babies named Kristopher.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,655 US boys were named Kristopher; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 377. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,931 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kristopher ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #602 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), Khristopher (2,318 babies since 1880), Kristofer (9,791 babies since 1880) and Kristoffer (3,940 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Krystopher, Kristapher and Crystopher are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chris and Kris.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Krystopher (729), Kristapher (69), Crystopher (24), Kristophor (11), Krisstopher (10), Kristepher (5), Crisstopher (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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #602 | #463 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #709 | #561 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #728 | #401 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #884 | #599 |
| Arizona | 6 | #896 | #615 |
| Missouri | 5 | #942 | #453 |
| California | 23 | #980 | #559 |
| Florida | 14 | #986 | #529 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,053 | #536 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,119 | #338 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,221 | #609 |
| New York | 9 | #1,255 | #657 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 172 | #1,190 |
| 2024 | — | — | 179 | #1,168 |
| 2023 | — | — | 211 | #1,039 |
| 2022 | — | — | 223 | #1,001 |
| 2021 | — | — | 243 | #931 |
| 2020 | — | — | 277 | #829 |
| 2019 | — | — | 308 | #771 |
| 2018 | — | — | 315 | #749 |
| 2017 | — | — | 377 | #671 |
| 2016 | — | — | 350 | #705 |
| 2015 | — | — | 466 | #593 |
| 2014 | — | — | 465 | #592 |
| 2013 | — | — | 494 | #539 |
| 2012 | — | — | 528 | #504 |
| 2011 | — | — | 534 | #492 |
| 2010 | — | — | 555 | #469 |
| 2009 | — | — | 644 | #435 |
| 2008 | — | — | 680 | #426 |
| 2007 | — | — | 693 | #420 |
| 2006 | — | — | 761 | #393 |
| 2005 | — | — | 706 | #401 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,568 | 743 | #375 |
| 2003 | — | — | 784 | #353 |
| 2002 | — | — | 837 | #329 |
| 2001 | — | — | 883 | #317 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,393 | 1,021 | #295 |
| 1999 | — | — | 975 | #294 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,073 | #267 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,097 | #259 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,701 | 1,238 | #241 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,186 | #244 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,630 | 1,365 | #212 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,087 | 1,564 | #195 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,636 | #189 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,805 | 1,782 | #178 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,876 | 1,858 | #165 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,743 | 1,957 | #155 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,425 | 1,956 | #144 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,066 | 1,938 | #145 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,635 | 1,994 | #140 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,200 | 2,099 | #134 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,075 | 1,984 | #137 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,299 | 2,012 | #134 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,953 | 2,190 | #125 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,431 | 1,930 | #146 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,419 | 2,008 | #138 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,134 | 2,349 | #114 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,754 | 2,525 | #104 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,529 | 2,346 | #113 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,697 | 1,606 | #153 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,751 | 1,232 | #185 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,866 | 1,308 | #176 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,033 | 980 | #222 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,907 | 714 | #271 |
| 1971 | — | — | 461 | #376 |
| 1970 | — | — | 362 | #429 |
| 1969 | — | — | 263 | #473 |
| 1968 | — | — | 208 | #530 |
| 1967 | — | — | 191 | #541 |
| 1966 | — | — | 205 | #531 |
| 1965 | — | — | 184 | #561 |
| 1964 | — | — | 150 | #636 |
| 1963 | — | — | 115 | #731 |
| 1962 | — | — | 107 | #741 |
| 1961 | — | — | 121 | #696 |
| 1960 | — | — | 84 | #831 |
| 1959 | — | — | 92 | #800 |
| 1958 | — | — | 83 | #826 |
| 1957 | — | — | 52 | #1,058 |
| 1956 | — | — | 48 | #1,100 |
| 1955 | — | — | 36 | #1,261 |
| 1954 | — | — | 21 | #1,684 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,802 |
| 1952 | — | — | 24 | #1,571 |
| 1951 | — | — | 30 | #1,361 |
| 1950 | — | — | 21 | #1,633 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,166 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,533 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,565 |
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).