Christobal
#9,892 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Christobal has been given to 791 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #9,892 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Christobal, 2025
1 in 474,000
Christobal over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Christobal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,892
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Christobal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christobal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Christobals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Christobal was born before 1981 — so the typical Christobal is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 16.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 707
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 16.4% of all recorded uses (130).
Is Christobal rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,300
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +960
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,150
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.0%
- Peak was 2000 (20)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.9% average annual change
Spellings of Christobal
Christobal is not the most common spelling — Cristobal is, with 91.0% against Christobal's 9.0%.
- Cristobal91.0%7,990
- Christobal9.0%791
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Christobal is used
Across 1910–2025, Christobal was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 202,980 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Christobal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Christobal around the world
Where Christobal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1965–2012#5,638in 2012
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Christobal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Christobal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Christobal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.