Christopher

given name · English · Latin script

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

Christopher is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the personal name Christopher, literally ‘bearer of Christ’ (Greek Khristophoros).

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 202◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 208
  • USUnited States1 in 222

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.9M ●

across 11 countries

#123 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
612 ●

14M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 180 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

ChristopherLatin · English●14M records
כריסטופרHebrew · Hebrew●755 records
크리스토퍼Hangul · Korean●4 records
ՔրիստափորArmenian · Armenian●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cristopher in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador, CL Chile and 6 more and כריסטוף in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From the personal name Christopher, literally ‘bearer of Christ’ (Greek Khristophoros).

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Christopher is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#271,497,65812M rec.1 in 2221.5MChristopher612
GB United Kingdom#211,021,807696K rec.—4Christopher327
AU Australia#22557,512313K rec.—108Christopher323
FR France—375,995△257 rec.1 in 180376Kכריסטוף12
PH Philippines#38282,997238K rec.—29KChristopher180
CA Canada#44224,391182K rec.—27Christopher284
DE Germany#204125,424112K rec.—1Christopher272
NG Nigeria#9262,90181K rec.——Christopher151
IT Italy#19048,27247K rec.—10Christopher149
CL Chile#28743,4254.4K rec.—154Cristopher94
ZA South Africa#3041,32540K rec.——Christopher155
AT Austria#10932,2728.3K rec.—25KChristopher131

Roughly 1.5M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 222). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English14M80%
  • Spanish748K4%
  • 587K3%
  • French362K2%
  • German312K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English14,161,44380%
Spanish747,5124%
587,0563%
French361,7582%
German312,3812%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Christopher is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name1.1M records spelled Christopher135 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Spain, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English

    Also written Cristobal, Cristovao, Cristóbal, Cristóvão, Cristovão

  • Polish given name385K records spelled Christopher129 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, France, Germany, United States

    Languages: Polish, French, German

    Also written Krzysztof, Christophe, Christoph, 'Krzysztof

  • Polish given name73K records spelled Christopher106 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Христофор, Кристофер, Hristofor, Kristopher, Khrystofor

  • Indonesian given name48K records spelled Christopher6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Christopher, Chrisťopher, Christopher'

  • Hungarian given name29K records spelled Christopher40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Finland, Belgium, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Dutch

    Also written Kristof, Kristóf, Krištof, Kristòf, Krístóf

104 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●

Christopher is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from Greek Christopherus ‘Christ-bearing’; first attested Christoforus 1209 P (Hu)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Bearing Christ; patron saint of travellers

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Forme anglaise de Christophe, du grec Christophoros, « porteur du Christ ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, Old English; bearing Christ

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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.

Over time●

020K40K60K80K19001950200060K · 1984

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Christopher in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188095
188168
188289
188389
188468
188571
188666
188756
188879
188971
189066
189162
1892100
189393
189472
189560
189673
189757
189843
189942
190055
190134
190247
190350
190443
190550
190649
190752
190854
190950
191070
191183
1912151
1913157
1914200
1915242
1916260
1917263
1918272
1919262
1920293
1921291
1922307
1923294
1924297
1925286
1926270
1927285
1928266
1929273
1930267
1931237
1932244
1933205
1934271
1935269
1936277
1937294
1938308
1939359
1940499
1941618
1942813
1943888
19441,001
19451,138
19461,599
19472,273
19483,036
19494,000
19504,835
19515,734
19526,302
19536,081
19546,084
19557,922
19568,384
19578,997
195811,079
195912,915
196015,361
196117,223
196217,535
196318,339
196419,627
196524,640
196627,866
196729,413
196831,468
196935,672
197041,747
197148,225
197252,172
197348,313
197448,585
197546,575
197645,190
197746,721
197847,236
197950,659
198049,079
198150,221
198259,223
198359,324
198460,021
198559,609
198656,693
198754,493
198853,014
198953,186
199052,362
199147,111
199242,468
199338,237
199434,807
199532,679
199630,904
199729,108
199827,007
199925,604
200024,936
200123,132
200221,689
200320,753
200419,636
200519,174
200619,688
200720,030
200817,966
200916,368
201014,299
201113,027
201211,921
201310,878
201410,390
20159,853
20169,106
20178,319
20187,341
20197,022
20206,216
20215,863
20225,589
20235,198
20245,082
20254,748

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Christopher Wren, b. 1632Christopher Plummer, b. 1929Christopher Lloyd, b. 1938Christopher Reeve, b. 1952Criss Angel, b. 1967Chris Tucker, b. 1971Ashton Kutcher, b. 1978Chris Pine, b. 1980Chris Evans, b. 1981Chris Brown, 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●

Attested in 136 sources across 69 countries.

Official registers attesting Christopher
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.5M#13
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202439K#1,523
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201029K#1,214
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200028K#1,124
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202025K#1,369
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202415K#146
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—10K#409
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9.6K#411
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20247K#286
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20226.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.9K#2,184
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20205.6K—

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 1,879 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Christopher?
We estimate roughly 1.9 million people bear Christopher (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Christopher have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.5 million people bear Christopher in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled christopher.
Where is Christopher most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Christopher is densest in France — about 1 in 180 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Christopher compared with other names?
In the United States, Christopher is the 27th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Christopher a male or female name?
Christopher 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 does the name Christopher mean?
Recorded meaning: From the personal name Christopher, literally ‘bearer of Christ’ (Greek Khristophoros).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Christopher” — the 27th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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