Christópher
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Christópher is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,499,872 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 13th. Recorded meaning: English style spelling variant of the standard Swedish Kristoffer. Christópher is also written כריסטופר in Hebrew, Քրիստափոր in Armenian and 크리스토퍼 in Korean (Hangul).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 222
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 250
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 Christópher itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #62 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 680 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 179 (inferred from the name graph)
1,499,872 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Christópher in other scripts: Hebrew, Armenian and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Christopher in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 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.
Cited for this meaning 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 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Christópher 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #24 | 1,499,872 | 1 in 222 | 1.5M | Christopher | 680 |
| GB United Kingdom | #18 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 179 | 4 | Christopher | 416 |
| NG Nigeria | #83 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 714 | — | Christopher | 155 |
| PH Philippines | #35 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 360 | 29K | Christopher | 194 |
| CA Canada | #48 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 359 | 27 | Christopher | 368 |
| AU Australia | #33 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 262 | 108 | Christopher | 344 |
| NZ New Zealand | #28 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 246 | 10 | Christopher | 189 |
| IE Ireland | #36 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 306 | — | Christopher | 174 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Christópher 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 Christópher a male or female name?
- Christópher 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Christópher?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Christópher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christopher. After it come United Kingdom, Nigeria, Philippines and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Christópher?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,499,872 people named Christópher in 2020, about 1 in 222 residents.
- How common is Christópher compared with other names?
- In the United States, Christópher is the 24th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/christ%C3%B3pherThe 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, “Christópher” — ranked 13th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.