Christoffer

given name · Latin script

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

Christoffer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a male given name, variant of Kristoffer.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 499(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 946
  • NONorway1 in 1.1K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

20,462 people

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 499 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name, variant of Kristoffer

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Christoffer 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 Christoffer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#14420,4621 in 49920KChristoffer139
BJ Benin#121≈6,900 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Christoffer6
DK Denmark#1736,2021 in 9466.2KChristoffer163
NO Norway#2104,9621 in 1.1K19KChristoffer103
FI Finland—1,5471 in 3.6K1.8KChristoffer34

20,462 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)

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

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Sweden, Philippines, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Chrístoffer

  • 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

43 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Christopher I of Denmark, b. 1219Christopher II of Denmark, b. 1276Christopher Polhem, b. 1661Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, b. 1783Christoffer Boe, b. 1974Carsten Linnemann, b. 1977Christoffer Læssøe, b. 1985Christoffer Nordenrot, b. 1986Christoffer Carlsson, b. 1986Christoffer Sundgren, b. 1989

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 46 sources across 21 countries.

Reference works 4

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 Christoffer mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, variant of Kristoffer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Christoffer a male or female name?
Christoffer 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 Christoffer?
In the etymology graph, Christopher, Chris and Christophe are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Christoffer have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Christoffer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christoffer.
Where is Christoffer most common?
Christoffer is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 499 people carrying it.
How common is the name Christoffer?
In Sweden, the national register counted 20,462 people named Christoffer, about 1 in 499 residents.
How common is Christoffer compared with other names?
In Sweden, Christoffer is the 144th most common given name of 45,482 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, “Christoffer” — the 144th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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