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Krzysztof

#13,085 in 2025Boys' name

Messiah + I carry, I bear

Krzysztof has been given to 473 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #13,085 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Krzysztof, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krzysztof: meaning, origin, and history

Messiah + I carry, I bear

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krzysztof means

Krzysztof means “messiah + I carry, I bear”, associated with Χριστός and φέρω.

Origin, language, and formation

Krzysztof is used in Polish.

Krzysztof comes through Ancient Greek Χριστόφορος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christopher.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Krzysztof is pronounced /ˈkʂɘʂ.tɔf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 473 boys were recorded with the name Krzysztof between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,139 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,147 in 2020 to #13,085 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Krzysztof?

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
#13,085
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krzysztof 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 Krzysztof. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krzysztofs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krzysztof was born before 1994 — so the typical Krzysztof is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
473
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1990s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Krzysztof 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,938
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
27.8%
Peak was 1989 (18)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,139
1981

Where Krzysztof is used

Across 1910–2025, Krzysztof was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 165,606 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Krzysztof has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Krzysztof around the world

Where Krzysztof 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2018
    #416
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2006–2022
    #779
    in 2022
  • France
    1990–2013
    #6,072
    in 2013
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #523
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #1,611
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1958–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Krzysztof by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,085
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,938
Best rank ever
#3,139
1981
Peak year
1989
18 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
473
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Krzysztof

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

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Sibling names for Krzysztof

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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