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Christophe

Boys' name

Carrier of Christ, through Christopher

Christophe has been given to 4,476 babies in the U.S. since 1929. 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 1955, with 325 recorded.

Babies named Christophe, 2024

1 in 371,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christophe: meaning, origin, and history

Carrier of Christ, through Christopher

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christophe means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Christophe is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christopher.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Christophe is pronounced /kʁis.tɔf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,476 boys were recorded with the name Christophe between 1929 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 325 in 1955; its best national rank was #404 in 1955.

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 Christophe?

Christophe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 191,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Christophe 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christophe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christophes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christophe was born before 1957 — so the typical Christophe is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
52.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,281
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (2,354).

Is Christophe 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1955 (325)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#404
1955

Spellings of Christophe

Christophe is not the most common spelling — Christopher is, with 98.5% against Christophe's 0.21%.

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 Christophe is used

Across 1910–2025, Christophe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 58,360 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alaska1 in 25,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 33,333
  5. 5Oregon1 in 33,333
  6. 6Washington1 in 33,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 50,000
  8. 8Idaho1 in 50,000

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. Christophe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christophe around the world

Where Christophe 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
    1997–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    1979–1979
    #259
    in 1979
  • Ireland
    1998–1998
    #369
    in 1998
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,351
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1965–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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

Notable people named Christophe

People whose public names include Christophe, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Christophe in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Christophe. Linked forms have their own page here.

KesterKristofChristofChristophCristobalKristoferKrzysztofChristoferKristofferChristofferChristopherTittoKristófKrištofKryštofChristovKristapsCristòfolCristóbalCristóvãoKristóferChrystopheCristoforoKhristofor

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Christophe 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
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Best rank ever
#404
1955
Peak year
1955
325 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,476
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Christophe

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

ChristoferChristoperChristainChristiaanChristianoChristobalChristosChristophChristenChristpherChristanChristoherChristonChristineChristinaChrishawnChrisopherChristChristionChristienChristophrChrystianChristofferChritopher

Names with a curve like Christophe

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

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Sibling names for Christophe

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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