Christer
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Christer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 187(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.9K
- BJBenin≈1 in 1K
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 Christer 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 187 (inferred from the name graph)
54,596 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name derived from Christian, through a medieval form Christiern
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Christer is read(measured from records)
Christer is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swedish50%
Christer (m.fl. former), av äldre Christiern, är en nordisk form av → Christian. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 13 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- English14%
A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian8.7%
a male given name derived from Christian, through a medieval form Christiern
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Christer in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Christer 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.
54,596 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Christer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Swedish and Danish form of the male name CHRISTIAN . It is first found in the 15th century, when it began to be borne regularly in a few noble families. It came into more general popularity in the 1940s.
as a word
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)
- Christer Strömholmb. 1918SESwedish photographer (1918-2002)
- Christer Johanssonb. 1944SESwedish table tennis player
- Christer Petterssonb. 1947SESwedish criminal (1947–2004)
- Christer Nilsonb. 1949SESwedish film producer and screenwriter
- Christer Sjögrenb. 1950SESwedish dansband and rock singer
- Björn Wahlroosb. 1952FInot in their usual nameFinnish economist and chairperson
- Christer Fuglesangb. 1957SESwedish astronaut
- Christer Björkmanb. 1957SESwedish singer, television presenter and producer
- Christer Majbäckb. 1964SESwedish cross-country skier
- Christer Wallinb. 1969SESwedish swimmer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 55K | #67 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 26K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 26K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Christer come from?
- a male given name derived from Christian, through a medieval form Christiern Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Christer mean?
- In English, A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion.
- Is Christer a male or female name?
- Christer 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.
- What are other forms of the name Christer?
- In the etymology graph, Chris, Christian and Cristian are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kristian.
- In which country does Christer have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 55 thousand people named Christer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christer.
- Where is Christer most common?
- Christer is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 187 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Christer?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 54,596 people named Christer, about 1 in 187 residents.
- How common is Christer compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Christer is the 72nd most common given name of 45,482 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/christerThe 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, “Christer” — the 72nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.