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How popular is the name Christian?

Births per year, rank history and how many Christians are alive today.

Christian (male), once a common boys' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 393rd in 2025 with 105 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1974, when around 1,700 babies were given the name, the 49th most popular that year. Christian fell out of the published rankings after 1974 and returned in 1994, a classic revival pattern. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 35,000 babies have been named Christian in England and Wales since 1974. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Christian is one spelling of a name also recorded as Krystian; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Christian include Chris.

Across all spellings of the name, the Christian you are most likely to meet is around 51 years old. Half of all Christians born in England and Wales are between 33 and 52, and there are at least 46,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 14% chance that at least one of them will be called Christian.

How many babies are named Christian each year?

Includes all spellings: Christian, Krystian. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Christian spelling rank?

Where does the Krystian spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.