Crist vs Cristopher

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Crist Cristopher

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 105 years in which either name was published, Cristopher for 70 years and Crist for 35 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1914–1949 Crist ahead
• 1950 Cristopher ahead
• 1951–1953 Crist ahead
• 1954 Cristopher ahead
• 1955–1957 Crist ahead
• 1958–2025 Cristopher ahead

Side by side

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 Crists alive today are over 39; half the Cristophers are over 21. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Crist Ohio (9.5×), Pennsylvania (9.0×)
• Cristopher Nevada (3.9×), California (3.1×), Texas (2.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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