Cristobal is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Cristobal is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1238 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,237 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cristobal.
The odds of having a man or boy named Cristobal in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Cristobal is registered in 18 states, among which are Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado or Florida. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Cristobal live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 5,333 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Cristobal.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With nine letters, the name Cristobal is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Cristobal and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cristobal, you can simply say:
Cat
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Tiger
Orange
Butterfly
Apple
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cristobal
Cristobal
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
R
I
S
T
O
B
A
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
R
I
S
T
O
B
A
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cristobal sounds like this:
