Kristopher

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kristopher: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kristopher: Recorded since 1983, it reached #227 in 1997, and it stood at #3,254 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
42years from first to last
#227highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#352
1997	#369
1998	#585
1999	#639
2000	#918
2001	#983
2002	#950
2003	#1011
2004	#1222
2005	#1135
2006	#1347
2007	#1506
2008	#1343
2009	#1649
2010	#1289
2011	#1688
2012	#1669
2013	#1339
2014	#1630
2015	#2319
2016	#3478
2017	#2734
2018	#3412
2019	#4702
2020	#4608
2021	#4789
2022	#2755
2023	#3523
2024	#3254

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 10 of the 34 years from 1983 to 2016.

In 2016: #713 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3478 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1983–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1983
First recorded at #282 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1983 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2010
Highest recorded position: #227 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2010).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kristopher appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 478 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1983.

Kristopher across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kristopher's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#282 (1983)	#256 (1990)	#713 (2016)	10 of 34	35 (1983–2016)	5 (1990)
England and Wales · Boys	#352 (1996)	#352 (1996)	#3254 (2024)	29 of 29	478 (1996–2024)	66 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#227 (1997)	#227 (1997)	#387 (2010)	5 of 14	17 (1997–2010)	5 (1997)

Kristopher by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kristopher in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	186	4 of 10	47
2000sbusiest	161	10 of 10	16
2010s	107	10 of 10	11
2020s	24	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births fell by 31, from 62 to 31.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kristopher appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1983 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #227 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Kristopher's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1630	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1669	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1289	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1343	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1506	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1135	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1222	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1011	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#983	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#639	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#585	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#369	62	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#352	66	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#387	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#299	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#272	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#227	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#339	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#256	5	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#271	4	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#272	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#318	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1983 and 2024, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #227, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 66 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 14 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kristofers · #609, 12y
Kristoffer · #11, 80y
Kristupas · #387, 17y
Kristy · #8, 38y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Darach · #227, 32y
Eimer · #229, 40y
Roxanne · #229, 36y
Elma · #224, 41y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Meaghan · #227, 25y
Siomha · #228, 16y
Kirstin · #229, 18y
Roxanne · #229, 36y

Kristopher was ranked #227 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kristopher and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kristopher without appearing here.

Kristopher moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4789 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #4991.
Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #4270.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #4270.

Moved ahead of Kristopher

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3412 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2104.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1461.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3412 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2728.
Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2734 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3412 and #1786.

Moved the opposite way to Kristopher

Aaron Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 while Aaron went from #92 to #24.
Adam Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 while Adam went from #67 to #7.
Alex Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 while Alex went from #202 to #17.
Alexander Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 while Alexander went from #152 to #49.

Moved the same way as Kristopher

Adrian Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 and Adrian from #56 to #156.
Denis Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 and Denis from #54 to #145.
Edward Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 and Edward from #44 to #90.
Francis Compare
Between 1983 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kristopher went from #282 to #713 and Francis from #51 to #263.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1983 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #227 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kristopher

Kristopher at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kristopher across 3 official records

Kristopher by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kristopher appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kristopher at a glance

Kristopher across 3 official records

Kristopher by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kristopher appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Kristopher

Kristopher and the names beside it

Kristopher moved ahead of

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