Christopher

girls:

9.5k births since 1938

#1659 (71st percentile)

boys:

2.1M births since 1880

#11 (100th percentile)

overall:

2.1M births since 1880

#12 (100th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Christopher is the #12 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,070,209 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #11 (99.8% percentile) for all time with 2,060,702 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,659 (71.0% percentile) for all time with 9,507 births since 1938.

Christopher has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1938 for girls).

The name Christopher has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.

For boys, Christopher reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 99.9% percentile (ranked #2) with 17,075 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 31,983 births per million (ranked 99.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1986, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Christopher ranks #53 for boys (94.3% percentile) with 2,824 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.

For girls, Christopher reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 45.7% percentile (ranked #421) with 234 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 237 births per million (ranked 44.7% percentile). Despite a low point in 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Christopher ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Christopher".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
9,507
Peak Births
430
Peak Year
1983
First Recorded
1938
Peak Percentile
45.7%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#421
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics
Total Births
2,060,702
Peak Births
60,022
Peak Year
1994
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.9%
Current Percentile
94.3%
Peak Rank
#2
Current Rank
#53
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Christopher

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Christopher. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Christopher is pronounced as KRIH-stuh-fer, which has 3 syllables.

KRIH-stuh-fer (3 syllables)
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100.0% confidence
K R IH1 S T AH0 F ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K R IH1 S T AH0 F ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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