Kristoffer
#6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 305 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,940since 1967
Kristoffer over time
Rank among boys' names. Kristoffer has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #3,531 | 30 |
| 2009 | #3,551 | 30 |
| 2008 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2006 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #2,195 | 48 |
| 2001 | #2,742 | 34 |
| 2000 | #1,968 | 52 |
| 1999 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #1,849 | 53 |
| 1997 | #1,773 | 54 |
| 1996 | #1,465 | 69 |
| 1995 | #1,338 | 77 |
| 1994 | #1,353 | 74 |
| 1993 | #1,185 | 89 |
| 1992 | #1,237 | 83 |
| 1991 | #1,008 | 114 |
| 1990 | #1,000 | 111 |
| 1989 | #1,016 | 102 |
| 1988 | #924 | 107 |
| 1987 | #949 | 99 |
| 1986 | #925 | 97 |
| 1985 | #818 | 119 |
| 1984 | #815 | 115 |
| 1983 | #772 | 127 |
| 1982 | #729 | 142 |
| 1981 | #682 | 161 |
| 1980 | #737 | 142 |
| 1979 | #733 | 139 |
| 1978 | #457 | 305 |
| 1977 | #561 | 223 |
| 1976 | #890 | 87 |
| 1975 | #796 | 109 |
| 1974 | #645 | 156 |
| 1973 | #756 | 112 |
| 1972 | #911 | 77 |
| 1971 | #1,289 | 42 |
| 1970 | #1,743 | 25 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kristoffer! It came in at #3,966, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1969, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kristoffer
- 962 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #6,803)
- 1,352 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #6,803)
- 1,913 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #6,803)
- Biggest jump: 378 spots in 1972 (#1,289 → #911)
- Biggest drop: 276 spots in 1979 (#457 → #733)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1978 at #457 (305 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1972–1988
- Highest: 1 in 5,383 boys born in 1978 were named Kristoffer (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.4% of all boys named Kristoffer (1,275) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #3,365 (1968) | #3,755 |
| 1970s | 1,275 | #457 (1978) | #878 |
| 1980s | 1,211 | #682 (1981) | #837 |
| 1990s | 772 | #1,000 (1990) | #1,420 |
| 2000s | 394 | #1,968 (2000) | #2,776 |
| 2010s | 207 | #3,364 (2011) | #4,919 |
| 2020s | 63 | #5,451 (2020) | #7,891 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kristoffer in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 12,385 of them was named Kristoffer, which outranked 89.6% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).