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Christoper

#10,923 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Christoper has been given to 3,161 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #10,923 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Christoper, 2025

1 in 553,000

Christoper over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christoper: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christoper means

Christoper is a given name.

The naming story behind Christoper

Wikidata records Christoper as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q122146928, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,161 boys were recorded with the name Christoper between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1985; its best national rank was #824 in 1985.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,158 in 2015 to #10,923 in 2025.

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.

How common is Christoper?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,923
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Christoper 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christoper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christopers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christoper was born before 1982 — so the typical Christoper is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,161
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (998).

Is Christoper 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
−2,765
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1985 (117)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#824
1985

Spellings of Christoper

Christoper is not the most common spelling — Christopher is, with 98.1% against Christoper's 0.15%.

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 Christoper is used

Across 1910–2025, Christoper was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 109,776 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Christoper has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christoper around the world

Where Christoper 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.

  • South Australia
    1960–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Christoper by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,923
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#824
1985
Peak year
1985
117 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,161
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Christoper

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

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Names with a curve like Christoper

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Christoper, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KristenStephanieMelissaJaymeCorryBrainAntioneChaddSedrickMichelleRebeccaLamarr

Sibling names for Christoper

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

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