Christophe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek Christophoros, 'bearer of Christ'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʁistɔf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Christophe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 215(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 310
- BRBrazil1 in 793K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Christophe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- #618 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 454 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 215 (inferred from the name graph)
631,900 named Krzysztof, 2026
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Christoph in DE Germany, AT Austria and Krzysztof in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Greek Christophoros, 'bearer of Christ'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Christophe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #4 | 631,900as Krzysztof | 1 in 61 | 637K | Krzysztof | 272 |
| FR France | #13 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 215 | 376K | Christophe | 454 |
| DE Germany | #54 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 362 | listed | Christoph | 311 |
| AT Austria | #22 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 217 | 25K | Christoph | 197 |
| BE Belgium | #12 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 310 | 539 | Christophe | 192 |
| BR Brazil | — | 267 | 1 in 793K | 267 | Christophe | 62 |
631,900 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Christophe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Greek Christophoros, 'Christ-bearer'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du nom grec Christophoros, de Christos « Christ » et phoros « porteur », donc « qui porte le Christ ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du grec Christophoros, « porteur du Christ »; saint patron des voyageurs, fête le 25 juillet.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du grec Christophoros, « porteur du Christ »; fête le 21 août.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine grecque, « qui porte le Christ ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Saint Christopherb. 300TRnot in their usual namesaint in the Catholic and Orthodox church
- Christopher of Bavariab. 1416DEnot in their usual nameking of Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1442-1448
- Gustave Doréb. 1832FRnot in their usual nameFrench illustrator and painter (1832–1883)
- Christopher Lambertb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Leos Caraxb. 1960FRnot in their usual nameFrench director and writer (born 1960)
- Christophe Galtierb. 1966FRFrench football manager (born 1966)
- Christophe Castanerb. 1966FRFrench lawyer and politician
- Christophe Beckb. 1968CACanadian composer and conductor
- Christophe Dugarryb. 1972FRFrench footballer (born 1972)
- Christophe Lemaitreb. 1990FRFrench athlete
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 376K | #1,821 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 298 | #993 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 288 | #952 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 267 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 265 | #20,696 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 128 | #32,221 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 43 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2016 | 8 | #1,800 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2023 | 2 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Christophe mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Christophoros, 'bearer of Christ'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Christophe?
- In the etymology graph, Christopher, Chris and Christoph are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Christophe have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 632 thousand people named Krzysztof, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Christophe?
- A machine transcription gives /kʁistɔf/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Christophe a male or female name?
- Christophe is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Christophe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 267 people named Christophe in 2022, about 1 in 793 thousand residents.
- How common is Christophe compared with other names?
- In Poland, Christophe is the 4th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/christopheThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Christophe” — the 4th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.