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Kristin vs Kristofor

American parents have registered 180,951 Kristins since 1880, against 805 Kristofors. Kristin is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kristin against Kristofor, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kristin Kristofor

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

Kristin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1932 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Kristin had 364 and Kristofor had 6.

Side by side

  Kristin Kristofor
Total US births 180,951805
Most in one year 9,80158
Babies in 2025 29under 5
Estimated living today 171,000750
Median age today 4343
Peak year 19811984
Best rank 31st girls1,198th boys
Rank in 2025 4,661stunranked
First recorded 19321966
Girls / boys 179,313 / 1,6380 / 805

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 Kristin Kristofor
Scotland 15346

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: Kristin and Kristofor.