Kristopher
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #16,099 · #1,188 for boys in 2025, 172 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 2,525 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 63,251since 1947
Kristopher over time
Rank among boys' names. Kristopher has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,188 | 172 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,165 | 179 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,034 | 211 | |
| 2022 | — | #997 | 223 | |
| 2021 | — | #929 | 243 | |
| 2020 | — | #828 | 277 | |
| 2019 | — | #769 | 308 | |
| 2018 | — | #748 | 315 | |
| 2017 | — | #670 | 377 | |
| 2016 | — | #705 | 350 | |
| 2015 | — | #593 | 466 | |
| 2014 | — | #591 | 465 | |
| 2013 | — | #538 | 494 | |
| 2012 | — | #504 | 528 | |
| 2011 | — | #492 | 534 | |
| 2010 | — | #469 | 555 | |
| 2009 | — | #435 | 644 | |
| 2008 | — | #425 | 680 | |
| 2007 | — | #420 | 693 | |
| 2006 | — | #393 | 761 | |
| 2005 | — | #401 | 706 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #374 | 743 |
| 2003 | — | #353 | 784 | |
| 2002 | — | #328 | 837 | |
| 2001 | — | #317 | 883 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #295 | 1,021 |
| 1999 | — | #294 | 975 | |
| 1998 | — | #267 | 1,073 | |
| 1997 | — | #258 | 1,097 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #241 | 1,238 |
| 1995 | — | #244 | 1,186 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #212 | 1,365 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #195 | 1,564 |
| 1992 | — | #189 | 1,636 | |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #178 | 1,782 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #165 | 1,858 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #155 | 1,957 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #144 | 1,956 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #145 | 1,938 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #140 | 1,994 |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 | #134 | 2,099 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #137 | 1,984 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | #134 | 2,012 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 | #125 | 2,190 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | #146 | 1,930 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | #138 | 2,008 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | #114 | 2,349 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #104 | 2,525 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | #113 | 2,346 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #153 | 1,606 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #185 | 1,232 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | #176 | 1,308 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #222 | 980 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #271 | 714 |
| 1971 | — | #375 | 461 | |
| 1970 | — | #429 | 362 | |
| 1969 | — | #473 | 263 | |
| 1968 | — | #529 | 208 | |
| 1967 | — | #540 | 191 | |
| 1966 | — | #531 | 205 | |
| 1965 | — | #560 | 184 | |
| 1964 | — | #635 | 150 | |
| 1963 | — | #730 | 115 | |
| 1962 | — | #741 | 107 | |
| 1961 | — | #694 | 121 | |
| 1960 | — | #830 | 84 | |
| 1959 | — | #797 | 92 | |
| 1958 | — | #824 | 83 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,050 | 52 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,092 | 48 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,255 | 36 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,668 | 21 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,765 | 19 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,547 | 24 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,344 | 30 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,615 | 21 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kristopher! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1947, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Kristopher is popular in 1963
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#377 · 1 in 8,791
- Indiana#412 · 1 in 7,328
- Ohio#508 · 1 in 12,907
- California#519 · 1 in 8,536
- Louisiana#533 · 1 in 6,603
Best ever in a state: #51 in Wyoming, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #377 | 5 | 1 in 8,791 |
| Indiana | #412 | 7 | 1 in 7,328 |
| Ohio | #508 | 8 | 1 in 12,907 |
| California | #519 | 22 | 1 in 8,536 |
| Louisiana | #533 | 6 | 1 in 6,603 |
| Michigan | #544 | 6 | 1 in 14,337 |
| New York | #699 | 9 | 1 in 19,393 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kristopher
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,165 → #1,188)
- 360 spots since 2020 (#828 → #1,188)
- 595 spots since 2015 (#593 → #1,188)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 1958 (#1,050 → #824)
- Biggest drop: 112 spots in 2016 (#593 → #705)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1978 at #104 (2,525 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 65 yrs · run 1958–2022
- Highest: 1 in 650 boys born in 1978 were named Kristopher (0.15%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,931 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 31.7% of all boys named Kristopher (20,068) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 23 | #2,443 (1948) | #2,944 |
| 1950s | 426 | #797 (1959) | #1,296 |
| 1960s | 1,628 | #473 (1969) | #626 |
| 1970s | 13,883 | #104 (1978) | #214 |
| 1980s | 20,068 | #125 (1982) | #140 |
| 1990s | 13,774 | #165 (1990) | #224 |
| 2000s | 7,752 | #295 (2000) | #374 |
| 2010s | 4,392 | #469 (2010) | #608 |
| 2020s | 1,305 | #828 (2020) | #1,024 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kristopher in 1963
Top boys' names in 1963
More about 1963
boys
2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 17,662 of them was named Kristopher, which outranked 84.2% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).