Chrístopher

given name · Latin script

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

Chrístopher is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 48th most common given name. Recorded meaning: English style spelling variant of the standard Swedish Kristoffer.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 222(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 31K
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 3.3M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,499,872 people, 2020

Sources
433 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Christopher in US United States, BR Brazil, GT Guatemala and 1 more.

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)

English style spelling variant of the standard Swedish Kristoffer.

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chrístopher 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 Chrístopher is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#6601,499,8721 in 2221.5MChristopher433
EC Ecuador—15,4961 in 1.1K15K—44
SE Sweden—9,5791 in 1.1K9.6KChristopher29
BR Brazil—6,9171 in 31K6.9KChristopher156
CR Costa Rica—4,2571 in 1.2K4.3K—99
GY Guyana—1,6431 in 4571.6K——
GT Guatemala#48≈5 est.≈1 in 3.3M—Christopher51

1,499,872 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Chrístopher is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name161 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Spanish

    Also written Christopher, Kristopher, Cristopher, Christoph, כריסטופר

  • Russian given name94 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Christopher, Христофор, Кристофер, Hristofor, Khrystofor

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chrístopher under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chrístopher mean, and where does it come from?
English style spelling variant of the standard Swedish Kristoffer. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
Is Chrístopher a male or female name?
Chrístopher 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 Chrístopher have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Chrístopher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christopher.
Where is Chrístopher most common?
Chrístopher is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 222 people carrying it.
How common is the name Chrístopher?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,499,872 people named Chrístopher in 2020, about 1 in 222 residents.
How common is Chrístopher compared with other names?
In the United States, Chrístopher is the 660th most common given name of 2,815,431 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, “Chrístopher” — the 660th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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