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Cristiana vs Cristobal

American parents have registered 8,001 Cristobals since 1880, against 922 Cristianas. Cristobal is still ahead, with 105 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cristiana 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

Cristobal has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Cristiana had 42 and Cristobal had 175.

Side by side

  Cristiana Cristobal
Total US births 9228,001
Most in one year 42249
Babies in 2025 5105
Estimated living today 9107,200
Median age today 2224
Peak year 20052001
Best rank 3,509th girls708th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,609th
First recorded 19621908
Girls / boys 922 / 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 Cristobals alive today are over 24; half the Cristianas are over 22. That is 2 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 Cristiana Cristobal
France 165250
England and Wales 666

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: Cristiana and Cristobal.