Christophor

Boys' name

Carrier of Christ, through Christopher

Christophor has been given to 537 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1971, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Christophor, 2003

1 in 475,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christophor: meaning, origin, and history

Carrier of Christ, through Christopher

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christophor means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Christophor is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christopher.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 537 boys were recorded with the name Christophor between 1951 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,443 in 1971.

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 Christophor?

Christophor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003: 1 in 475,000; 8 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only: 1 in 247,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 329,370 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Christophor 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 2003 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 329,370 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christophor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christophors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christophor was born before 1976 — so the typical Christophor is around 49 today.

Median birth year: 1976; About 49 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 42.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 537; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Christophor 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 1971 (35)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,443; 1971

Spellings of Christophor

Christophor is not the most common spelling — Christopher is, with 98.6% against Christophor's 0.03%.

Christopher98.6%2,069,596
Cristopher0.57%11,898
Christophe0.21%4,476
Christoper0.15%3,161
Khristopher0.11%2,318
Chistopher0.07%1,446
Christpher0.06%1,304
Christoph0.06%1,192

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 Christophor is used

Across 1910–2025, Christophor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,119,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Ohio1 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. Christophor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christophor around the world

Where Christophor 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
1958–1987
#464
in 1987

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

Christophor 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: #1,443; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 35 that year
First recorded: 1951
Last recorded: 2003
All-time count: 537
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Christophor

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

Sibling names for Christophor

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

Trena Darcie Michell Tressa Kerrie Nicola Latonia Tisha

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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