How rare is the name Kristopher?

45,559 people in the United States have the first name Kristopher, about 1 in 6,629. It ranks #962 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KRISTOPHER

#962

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
45,559
About
1 in 6,629
This common or more
69.5%
Who bears it

Of the 45,559 people named Kristopher, 70.6% reported their origin as White, 11.5% as Black and 10.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kristopher peaked in 1978, when 2,536 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19472025
Peak year
1978
Births that year
2,536
In 2025*
172 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 63,548 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kristopher by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #292. The largest share of babies named Kristopher, 45.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#8,92123
1950s#2,614426
1960s#1,3761,628
1970s#36913,968
1980s#29220,229
1990s#43713,815
2000s#7757,762
2010s#1,2534,392
2020s#2,1151,305
Baby boom 1946–641.6%
Generation X 1965–8026.8%
Millennials 1981–9645.4%
Generation Z 1997–1219.7%
2013 and later6.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kristopher is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kristopher has been most common in Alaska (2.4×), Nevada (1.8×), and Wyoming (1.7×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.38×).

60,971 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Kristopher

#960 Elliot · 45,706#961 Josefina · 45,594#963 Hanna · 45,248#964 Elisabeth · 45,239

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kristopher, most common first.

#2,974 Kristofer · 7,552#5,301 Kristoffer · 3,270#18,867 Krystopher · 567

Compare