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Kristofer

#3,621 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Christopher

Kristofer has been given to 9,791 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #3,621 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 349 recorded.

Babies named Kristofer, 2025

1 in 107,000

Kristofer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristofer: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christopher

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kristofer means

Kristofer is a form of Christopher.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Kristofer is a form of Christopher. Christopher has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Kristofer is used in Estonian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christopher and Kristoffer.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,791 boys were recorded with the name Kristofer between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 349 in 1978; its best national rank was #422 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,957 in 2020 to #3,621 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,467 in 2015 to #3,621 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 Kristofer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,621
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristofer 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristofer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristofers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristofer was born before 1989 — so the typical Kristofer is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,779
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (2,795).

Is Kristofer 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
−130
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−664
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,154
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.9%
Peak was 1978 (349)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#422
1978

Spellings of Kristofer

Kristofer is not the most common spelling — Kristopher is, with 73.1% against Kristofer's 11.3%.

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 Kristofer is used

Across 1910–2025, Kristofer was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 24,115 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 14,286
  3. 3Florida1 in 14,286
  4. 4Oregon1 in 14,286
  5. 5Texas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Arizona1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 20,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 20,000

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

Kristofer around the world

Where Kristofer 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
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1974–2010
    #548
    in 2010
  • France
    1984–2022
    #6,547
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1973–2001
    #399
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kristofer

People whose public names include Kristofer, 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.

Kristofer in other languages

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

KesterKristofChristofChristophCristobalKrzysztofChristoferChristopheKristofferChristofferChristopherKristófKrištofKryštofChristovKristapsCristòfolCristóbalCristóvãoCristoforoKhristoforCristoffaroChristophorus

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

Kristofer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,621
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 664
Best rank ever
#422
1978
Peak year
1978
349 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,791
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Kristofer

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

KristofferKristianCristoferKristopherKrishnaKristaferChristoferKristenKristiferKrishivKristoffKrishKristoforJenniferKrisKristanKristonKristinKrishanKrithikKrishavKieferKriyanshKristina

Names with a curve like Kristofer

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

ArronJamelKoryKoreyJerrodAntwanDerikDontaAntwonKelseyToryCedrick

Sibling names for Kristofer

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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