Cristobal
Cristobal is a boy's name that peaked in 2001, when it was the 708th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,609th. About 7,200 Cristobals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cristobal boys named Cristobal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,001
- Estimated living today
- 7,200
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 708th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,609th
- First recorded
- 1908
- Girls / boys
- 11 / 7,990
How old the living Cristobals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,001 babies given the name since 1908, about 7,200 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 270 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cristobals
- Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895–1972)Spanish fashion designer
- Cristóbal López Romero (born 1952)cardinal
- Cristóbal Montoro Romero (born 1950)Spanish politician
- Cristóbal de Olid (1488–1524)Spanish conquistador
- Cristóbal de Mendoza (1772–1829)President of Venezuela
- Cristóbal de Morales (1500–1553)Spanish composer
- Cristóbal Ortega (1956–2025)Mexican footballer
- Cristóbal Halffter (1930–2021)Spanish composer
People named Cristobal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cristobal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cristobal is most concentrated in Texas (5.3×), Arizona (4.2×), California (3.6×), New Mexico (3.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Cristobal peaked:
Cristobal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Cristobal | 250 | 788th |
| England and Wales boys | Cristobal | 6 | 4,789th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cristobal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Cristobal | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Cristobal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 27,239 men called Cristobal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Cristobal | 1,596 | 5.216 | 43 |
| Málaga | Cristobal | 3,575 | 4.087 | 46 |
| Cádiz | Cristobal | 2,229 | 3.592 | 54 |
| Córdoba | Cristobal | 1,323 | 3.501 | 51 |
| Almería | Cristobal | 1,011 | 2.570 | 63 |
| Sevilla | Cristobal | 2,066 | 2.143 | 76 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Cristobal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.