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Cristiana vs Cristopher

American parents have registered 11,898 Cristophers since 1880, against 922 Cristianas. Cristopher is still ahead, with 126 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cristiana against Cristopher, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cristiana 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

Cristopher has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1962, when Cristiana had 5 and Cristopher had 16.

Side by side

  Cristiana Cristopher
Total US births 92211,898
Most in one year 42576
Babies in 2025 5126
Estimated living today 91012,000
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20052007
Best rank 3,509th girls470th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,425th
First recorded 19621950
Girls / boys 922 / 00 / 11,898

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.

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 Cristopher
Italy 1,703652
France 16585
England and Wales 663

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