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Khristopher

#5,313 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Khristopher has been given to 2,318 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #5,313 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Khristopher, 2025

1 in 184,000

Khristopher over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khristopher: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khristopher means

Khristopher is a given name.

The naming story behind Khristopher

Wikidata records Khristopher as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q99189821, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,318 boys were recorded with the name Khristopher between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,128 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,085 in 2020 to #5,313 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,746 in 2015 to #5,313 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Khristopher?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,313
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khristopher 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khristopher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khristophers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khristopher was born before 1993 — so the typical Khristopher is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,318
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (538).

Is Khristopher 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
−338
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,228
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,567
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 1991 (72)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,128
1978

Spellings of Khristopher

Khristopher is not the most common spelling — Christopher is, with 95.7% against Khristopher's 0.11%.

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 Khristopher is used

Across 1910–2025, Khristopher was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 175,434 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Khristopher has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Khristopher around the world

Where Khristopher 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.

  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #1,715
    in 1994

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Khristopher in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Khristopher. Linked forms have their own page here.

TopherKristopherChristopher

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Khristopher by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,228
Best rank ever
#1,128
1978
Peak year
1991
72 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,318
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Khristopher

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

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Names with a curve like Khristopher

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Khristopher, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Khristopher

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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