Christopher
Christopher is ranked 61st among boys in 2024 (5,054 births). Its best rank was 2nd, in 1972–1973, 1979–1994.
- Rank in 2024
- #61down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5,0540.29% of boys
- Peak year
- 198460,019 births
- Best rank
- #2first in 1972
- Since 1880
- 2,074,303people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,064,796 boys have been named Christopher in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 60,019 births — 3.3% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 30 → 61).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 27%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 76 of them in the top 100 and 43 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 9,507 girls have also been given it, 0.46% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Christopher | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 752 | |
| 1890s | 668 | |
| 1900s | 484 | |
| 1910s | 1,960 | |
| 1920s | 2,862 | |
| 1930s | 2,731 | |
| 1940s | 15,865 | |
| 1950s | 78,334 | |
| 1960s | 237,144 | |
| 1970s | 475,446 | |
| 1980s | 554,886 | |
| 1990s | 360,280 | |
| 2000s | 203,370 | |
| 2010s | 102,121 | |
| 2020s | 27,893 |
In 1984, its biggest year
Christopher was the 2nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1984 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1984.
Names that rose and fell with Christopher
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Derrickpeak 1980
- Christoperpeak 1985
- Ericpeak 1970
- Derricpeak 1981
- Chistopherpeak 1985
- Darickpeak 1978
- Anilpeak 1989
- Antionepeak 1979
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.