# Kristopher (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kristopher/  
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 | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 63,548 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 63,251 / 297 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 478, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 20 | 3,953 |
| 1983 | 13 | 5,299 |
| 1984 | 19 | 4,075 |
| 1985 | 28 | 3,200 |
| 1986 | 17 | 4,635 |
| 1987 | 10 | 7,066 |
| 1988 | 10 | 7,425 |
| 1989 | 10 | 7,743 |
| 1990 | 9 | 8,876 |
| 1991 | 13 | 6,805 |
| 1993 | 8 | 10,087 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,630 |
| 1996 | 6 | 12,701 |
| 2000 | 5 | 16,393 |
| 2004 | 5 | 17,568 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 534 | 492 |
| 2012 | 528 | 504 |
| 2013 | 494 | 539 |
| 2014 | 465 | 592 |
| 2015 | 466 | 593 |
| 2016 | 350 | 705 |
| 2017 | 377 | 671 |
| 2018 | 315 | 749 |
| 2019 | 308 | 771 |
| 2020 | 277 | 829 |
| 2021 | 243 | 931 |
| 2022 | 223 | 1,001 |
| 2023 | 211 | 1,039 |
| 2024 | 179 | 1,168 |
| 2025 | 172 | 1,190 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19 | 1,289 |
| 2011 | 13 | 1,688 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,319 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |

## People named Kristopher

- Kristopher Turner, Canadian actor
- Kris Bryant, American baseball player
- Kris Versteeg, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1986)

## 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.