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Cristian vs Crixus

American parents have registered 71,051 Cristians since 1880, against 240 Crixuses. Cristian is still ahead, with 906 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cristian against Crixus, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cristian Crixus

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

Cristian has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Cristian had 1,190 and Crixus had 25.

Side by side

  Cristian Crixus
Total US births 71,051240
Most in one year 3,04626
Babies in 2025 9068
Estimated living today 70,000240
Median age today 218
Peak year 20062014
Best rank 134th boys3,891st boys
Rank in 2025 362nd8,910th
First recorded 19602011
Girls / boys 1,126 / 69,9250 / 240

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 Cristians alive today are over 21; half the Crixuses are over 8. That is 13 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: Cristian and Crixus.