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Crisoforo vs Cristy

American parents have registered 8,280 Cristys since 1880, against 40 Crisoforos. Cristy is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Crisoforo against Cristy, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Crisoforo Cristy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 84 years in which either name was published, Cristy for 81 years and Crisoforo for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Crisoforo Cristy
Total US births 408,280
Most in one year 6402
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 177,800
Median age today 7447
Peak year 19311978
Best rank 3,390th boys484th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,133rd
First recorded 19311944
Girls / boys 0 / 408,200 / 80

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Crisoforos alive today are over 74; half the Cristys are over 47. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Crisoforo and Cristy.