Christoph

given name · Latin script

Meaning: German surname from Christoph/Christoffel < gr

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Christoph 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.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria≈1 in 217(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 362
  • PLPoland1 in 61as Krzysztof

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 Christoph 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)

631,900 named Krzysztof, 2026

#618 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
454 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 217 (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChristopheLatin(measured from records)
คริสตอฟThai(measured from records)
ΚριστοφGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Christophe in FR France, BE Belgium 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)

German surname from Christoph/Christoffel < gr. Christophoros ‘Christ-bearer’; plate shows labial-fricative variation in spellings (f/ff/ph/p).

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Christoph 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.

Where Christoph is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#4631,900as Krzysztof1 in 61637KKrzysztof272
FR France#13≈320,000 est.≈1 in 215376KChristophe454
DE Germany#54≈220,000 est.≈1 in 362listedChristoph311
AT Austria#22≈41,000 est.≈1 in 21725KChristoph197
BE Belgium#12≈38,000 est.≈1 in 310539Christophe192
FI Finland—711 in 78K2.9K—27

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); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Christoph is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Çhristoph

  • Polish given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Russia, United States, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Christophe, Кристоф, Крістоф, Kristof, Christof

  • Croatian given name39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Switzerland, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Krištof, Christophe, Kristof, Кристоф, Kristóf

79 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Christoph is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, from Greek Christophoros 'Christ-bearer'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, Patronym zu Christoph; ph-Variante. 2796 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Patronym/Familienname zu Christoph; die Plate demonstriert f- und ph-Varianten im Konsonantismus.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, ) Christof; Kristof: männl.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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)

16001700180019002000Johann Christoph Bach III, b. 1671Christoph Willibald Gluck, b. 1714Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, b. 1732Christoph Martin Wieland, b. 1733Friedrich Schiller, b. 1759Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, b. 1762Christoph Waltz, b. 1956Christoph Metzelder, b. 1980Christoph Kramer, b. 1991Leon Goretzka, b. 1995

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 74 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Christoph
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202425K#165
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—711#914
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026677#598
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—637#595
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—71—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)202440#165
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)197130#861
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#28,491
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20242—

Reference works 7

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 Christoph come from?
German surname from Christoph/Christoffel < gr. Christophoros ‘Christ-bearer’; plate shows labial-fricative variation in spellings (f/ff/ph/p). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
Is Christoph a male or female name?
Christoph 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.
In which country does Christoph have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 632 thousand people named Krzysztof, more than in any other country we hold.
What does the name Christoph mean?
Recorded meaning: German surname from Christoph/Christoffel < gr.
What are other forms of the name Christoph?
In the etymology graph, Christopher, Chris and Christophe are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Christoph?
In Finland, the national register counted 71 people named Christoph, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
How common is Christoph compared with other names?
In Poland, Christoph is the 4th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.

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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, “Christoph” — the 4th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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