Given name
Cristopher
Cristopher is a masculine given name. It is used in English and Spanish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cristopher through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,898
- 11,898 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 576 babies
- 2025
- 126
- #1,426 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −14%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 126 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,426 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 14.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 576 in 2007. In 2025, California and Texas shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (20 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 10,195 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cristopher’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Cristopher shares an earlier linguistic root with Cristóbal. In Portuguese usage, Cristopher has a related form in Christopher.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cristopher
- Paolo HurtadoPeruvian footballerborn 1990
- Cristopher ToselliChilean footballerborn 1988
- Cristopher MeléndezHonduran footballerborn 1997
- Cristopher CrisostomoDominican baseball player (born 1994)
- Chris DeluzioAmerican politician (born 1984)
- Cristopher MansillaChilean bicycle racer1990–2021
- Cristopher NúñezCostarican footballerborn 1997
- Cristopher NihlstorpSwedish ice hockey playerborn 1984
- Cristopher MoisésEquatorial Guinean association football playerborn 2005
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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