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Cristofer

#1,935 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cristofer has been given to 4,323 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,935 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 263 recorded.

Babies named Cristofer, 2025

1 in 41,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cristofer: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cristofer means

Cristofer is a given name.

The naming story behind Cristofer

Wikidata records Cristofer as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q60580328, 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, 4,323 boys were recorded with the name Cristofer between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 263 in 2008; its best national rank was #815 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,719 in 2020 to #1,935 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,730 in 2015 to #1,935 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 Cristofer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 21,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,935
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cristofer 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cristofer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cristofers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cristofer was born before 2008 — so the typical Cristofer is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,323
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (1,957).

Is Cristofer 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
−211
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−216
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−205
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 2008 (263)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#815
2006

Spellings of Cristofer

Cristofer is not the most common spelling — Cristopher is, with 30.0% against Cristofer's 10.9%.

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 Cristofer is used

Across 2016–2025, Cristofer was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 18,378 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 12,500
  2. 2Texas1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 16,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5New York1 in 16,667
  6. 6Maryland1 in 25,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 25,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 33,333

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.

Cristofer around the world

Where Cristofer 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
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Cristofer

People whose public names include Cristofer, 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.

Cristofer in other languages

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

Cristopher

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

Cristofer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,935
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 216
Best rank ever
#815
2006
Peak year
2008
263 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,323
Count in 2025
80

Names similar to Cristofer

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

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Names with a curve like Cristofer

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

JayvonAdinPranavAdityaJakubJavenSebastienIsaakYairEthenCamrenRylee

Sibling names for Cristofer

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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