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Khristopher vs Khriz

American parents have registered 2,318 Khristophers since 1880, against 184 Khrizes. Khristopher is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khristopher against Khriz, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khristopher Khriz

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

Khristopher has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1964 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Khristopher had 49 and Khriz had 40.

Side by side

  Khristopher Khriz
Total US births 2,318184
Most in one year 7240
Babies in 2025 18under 5
Estimated living today 2,200180
Median age today 3117
Peak year 19912006
Best rank 1,325th boys2,832nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,208thunranked
First recorded 19642005
Girls / boys 0 / 2,3180 / 184

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 Khristophers alive today are over 31; half the Khrizes are over 17. That is 14 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.

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