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Cristi vs Cristobal

American parents have registered 8,001 Cristobals since 1880, against 3,203 Cristis. Cristobal is still ahead, with 105 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cristi against Cristobal, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cristi Cristobal

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 115 years in which either name was published, Cristobal for 90 years and Cristi for 25 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Cristi Cristobal
Total US births 3,2038,001
Most in one year 159249
Babies in 2025 5105
Estimated living today 3,0007,200
Median age today 5224
Peak year 19732001
Best rank 824th girls708th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,609th
First recorded 19481908
Girls / boys 3,203 / 011 / 7,990

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 Cristis alive today are over 52; half the Cristobals are over 24. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Cristi Cristobal
France 15250
England and Wales 76

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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