Cristoffer

Boys' name

Christ + bearing, through Χριστόφορος

Cristoffer has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1988, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Cristoffer, 1988

1 in 739,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cristoffer: meaning, origin, and history

Christ + bearing, through Χριστόφορος

Ancient Greek

What Cristoffer means

Cristoffer belongs to the name family reached through Cristoffer → Χριστόφορος. Its meaning is “Christ + bearing”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cristoffer is used in Welsh. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Cristoffer comes through Ancient Greek Χριστόφορος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Χριστόφορος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Cristoffer between 1988 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1988; its best national rank was #7,496 in 1988.

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.

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How common is Cristoffer?

Cristoffer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988: 1 in 739,000; 5 of 3,694,212 births
Among boys only: 1 in 383,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1988: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 512,128 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cristoffer 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cristoffer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cristoffers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cristoffer was born before 1988 — so the typical Cristoffer is around 37 today.

Median birth year: 1988; About 37 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Cristoffer 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 1988 (5)
Years since peak: 37; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #7,496; 1988

Spellings of Cristoffer

Cristoffer is not the most common spelling — Cristopher is, with 34.4% against Cristoffer's 0.01%.

Cristopher34.4%11,898
Kristofer28.3%9,791
Cristofer12.5%4,323
Kristoffer11.4%3,940
Christofer11.2%3,856
Christoffer2.1%728
Cristoffer0.01%5

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.

Cristoffer 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: #7,496; 1988
Peak year: 1988; 5 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 1988
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Cristoffer

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

Sibling names for Cristoffer

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

Kandace Alyse Whitley Shantell Stephani Ashli Ashlie Janay

For a brother

Darell Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick Derik Lauren Derrell Hakeem

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