Cristóbal

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Cristóbal

Say it: krees-TOH-bal

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Meaning

From Greek Christophoros 'Christ-bearer'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 2000s

In the United States

7,382 babies given this name since 1908
At its height in 2001, about 1 in 7,800 boys
113 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Spanish Andean Caribbean

The family of the name

Portuguese	Cristóvão
Italian	Cristoforo

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IsidroBoyFrom Greek Isidoros 'gift of Isis'.Colonial · peak 2000 · forgotten

LázaroBoyFrom Hebrew El'azar 'God has helped'.Colonial · peak 2004

ReyesGirl or boySpanish 'kings', from the Virgen de los Reyes, patroness of Seville, and the feast of the Three Kings.Colonial · peak 1930

RosendoBoyFrom Germanic Hrodsind (Latin Rudesindus): hrod 'fame' with a second element probably meaning 'path, journey'.Early Medieval · peak 1930 · forgotten

EleazarBoyHebrew El'azar, 'God has helped'.Biblical · peak 2020 · forgotten

GraceGirlFrom Latin gratia 'favour, grace'.Middle Ages · peak 1890

CrystalGirlFrom the English word crystal, from Greek krystallos 'ice'. (In Scotland Chrystal was separately a medieval pet form…Victorian · peak 1982

Where this comes from

Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
Parish baptism registers
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.