# Cristobal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cristobal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,001 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,990 / 11 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Cristóbal.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 10,834 |
| 1986 | 6 | 9,800 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 151 | 1,174 |
| 2012 | 152 | 1,190 |
| 2013 | 135 | 1,287 |
| 2014 | 143 | 1,252 |
| 2015 | 164 | 1,149 |
| 2016 | 145 | 1,262 |
| 2017 | 102 | 1,584 |
| 2018 | 127 | 1,387 |
| 2019 | 119 | 1,462 |
| 2020 | 113 | 1,499 |
| 2021 | 133 | 1,380 |
| 2022 | 125 | 1,449 |
| 2023 | 133 | 1,391 |
| 2024 | 122 | 1,483 |
| 2025 | 105 | 1,610 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Cristobal

- Cristóbal López Romero, cardinal (1952-)
- Cristóbal Jorquera, Chilean footballer
- Cristobal Huet, French ice hockey player
- Cristobal Henriquez Villagra, Chilean chess grandmaster
- Christopher Clavius, German astronomer and mathematician (1538–1612)
- Christoph Cellarius, German classical scholar

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.