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Boy's name · #96 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave
Christian's best rank, #21, came in 2006; it has settled back to #96 today. Roughly 454,000 boys have been named Christian since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 49 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#29 in Italy (2024) · #93 in Czechia (2025) · #112 in Austria (2025) · #131 in Norway (2025) · #140 in Ecuador (2025) · #168 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #190 in Mexico (2024) · #194 in Sweden (2025) · #221 in Canada (2025) · #253 in N. Ireland (2025) · #275 in Switzerland (2025) · #348 in Ireland (2025) and 15 more.
Among 20,965 notable people named Christian:
Medical professionals appear 2.24× more often than among typical names — e.g. Christian Bohr, Danish physician and professor of physiology (1855–1911).
Popular twin pairings with Christian include Christopher for a boy, and Chloe for a girl.
Together with its spelling variant Cristian (#362), Christian would rank around #73 with about 4,500 births last year — the newborns split about 80/20 between Christian and Cristian.
Similar names: Cristian · Gabriel · Christopher · Nicholas · Damian · Sebastian
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