Christoffer

Boys' name

Variant of Kristoffer

Christoffer has been given to 728 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Christoffer, 2020

1 in 668,000

Christoffer over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christoffer: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kristoffer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christoffer means

Christoffer is a variant of Kristoffer.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Christoffer is used in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

Origin, language, and formation

Christoffer is used in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kristoffer and Christopher.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 728 boys were recorded with the name Christoffer between 1968 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,879 in 1986.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Christoffer?

Christoffer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 668,000; 5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,344 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Christoffer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christoffer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christoffers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christoffer was born before 1990 — so the typical Christoffer is around 35 today.

Median birth year: 1990; About 35 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 30.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 728; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Christoffer rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1990 (37)
Years since peak: 35; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,879; 1986

Spellings of Christoffer

Christoffer is not the most common spelling — Christopher is, with 99.2% against Christoffer's 0.03%.

Christopher99.2%2,069,596
Cristofer0.21%4,323
Kristoffer0.19%3,940
Christofer0.18%3,856
Christoper0.15%3,161
Christoher0.05%1,094
Christoffer0.03%728

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Christoffer is used

Across 1910–2025, Christoffer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 697,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Christoffer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christoffer around the world

Where Christoffer ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1995–1995
#3,019
in 1995
Norway
1880–2025
#417
in 2025
South Australia
1996–1996
#540
in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Christoffer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,879; 1986
Peak year: 1990; 37 that year
First recorded: 1968
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 728
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Christoffer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Christoffer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Kacy Kortney Mai Shante Kathryne Jessika Brittni Kristian

For a brother

Laron Dejuan Antwon Akeem Tyron Shay Elizabeth Kelsey

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