Chrystopher

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Chrystopher has been given to 383 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Chrystopher, 2021

1 in 565,000

Chrystopher over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chrystopher?

Chrystopher had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chrystopher sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chrystopher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chrystophers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chrystopher was born before 1997 — so the typical Chrystopher is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
383
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Choose a decade

1990s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Chrystopher 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (16)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,220
1987

Spellings of Chrystopher

Chrystopher is not the most common spelling — Christopher is, with 98.5% against Chrystopher's 0.02%.

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 Chrystopher is used

Across 1910–2025, Chrystopher was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Chrystopher has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chrystopher around the world

Where Chrystopher 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.

  • France
    1985–2010
    #4,578
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1996–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chrystopher by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,220
1987
Peak year
1995
16 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
383
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chrystopher

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Chrystopher

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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