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Christoph

#6,521 in 2025Boys' name

Carrier of Christ, through Christopher

Christoph has been given to 1,192 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #6,521 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Christoph, 2025

1 in 255,000

Christoph over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christoph: meaning, origin, and history

Carrier of Christ, through Christopher

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christoph means

Christoph belongs to the name family reached through Christoph → Christopher → Christopher. Its meaning is “carrier of Christ”.

Origin, language, and formation

Christoph is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christopher.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Christoph is pronounced /ˈkrɪstɔf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,192 boys were recorded with the name Christoph between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1969; its best national rank was #1,417 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,612 in 2020 to #6,521 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,571 in 2015 to #6,521 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Christoph?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,521
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Christoph 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christoph. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christophs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christoph was born before 1986 — so the typical Christoph is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,192
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Choose a decade

1960s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (249).

Is Christoph 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
+2,628
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,091
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,950
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.6%
Peak was 1969 (32)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,417
1969

Spellings of Christoph

Christoph is not the most common spelling — Christopher is, with 99.3% against Christoph's 0.06%.

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 Christoph is used

Across 1910–2025, Christoph was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 745,922 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Christoph has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christoph around the world

Where Christoph 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2020
    #3,334
    in 2020
  • France
    1950–1996
    #3,277
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,766
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1960–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Christoph by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,521
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,091
Best rank ever
#1,417
1969
Peak year
1969
32 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,192
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Christoph

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

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Sibling names for Christoph

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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