Cristoval

#12,421 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Cristoval has been given to 442 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #12,421 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Cristoval, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,421
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cristoval 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cristoval. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cristovals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cristoval was born before 1996 — so the typical Cristoval is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
432
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2000s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Cristoval 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
−2
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
22.7%
Peak was 2001 (22)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,291
1980

Spellings of Cristoval

Cristoval is not the most common spelling — Cristobal is, with 86.6% against Cristoval's 4.8%.

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 Cristoval is used

Across 1910–2025, Cristoval was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 319,752 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Cristoval has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cristoval by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,421
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2
Best rank ever
#3,291
1980
Peak year
2001
22 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
442
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Cristoval

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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