Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Chrstopher

#17,366 most common boys' name of all time · #45,344 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1972–1994

Rank among boys
#17,366
Rank overall
#45,344 of 105,966
First appeared
1972
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
74
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1982 #3,438
Best rank
#3,438 1982
Girls Boys peak 13/yr
1980

Chrstopher first appears in 1972. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1994 — 5 5 #9,260
1990 — 5 5 #8,689
1987 — 6 6 #6,524
1986 — 8 8 #5,146
1985 — 7 7 #5,533
1984 — 5 5 #6,836
1983 — 5 5 #6,835
1982 — 13 13 #3,438
1974 — 5 5 #5,773
1973 — 7 7 #4,449
1972 — 8 8 #3,940