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Kristoffer

#7,021 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Christopher

Kristoffer has been given to 3,940 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #7,021 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 305 recorded.

Babies named Kristoffer, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristoffer: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christopher

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kristoffer means

Kristoffer is a form of Christopher.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kristoffer is used in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christopher and Christoffer.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,940 boys were recorded with the name Kristoffer between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 305 in 1978; its best national rank was #457 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,589 in 2020 to #7,021 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,977 in 2015 to #7,021 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 Kristoffer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,021
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristoffer 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristoffer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristoffers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristoffer was born before 1984 — so the typical Kristoffer is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,940
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (1,275).

Is Kristoffer 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
+1,046
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,432
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,044
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.9%
Peak was 1978 (305)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#457
1978

Spellings of Kristoffer

Kristoffer is not the most common spelling — Kristopher is, with 75.8% against Kristoffer's 4.7%.

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 Kristoffer is used

Across 1910–2025, Kristoffer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 78,131 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 33,333
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Oregon1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Idaho1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Kristoffer around the world

Where Kristoffer 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
    1996–2015
    #3,373
    in 2015
  • Scotland
    1975–2006
    #584
    in 2006
  • France
    1996–1996
    #3,393
    in 1996
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #185
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2005
    #2,048
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1960–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kristoffer

People whose public names include Kristoffer, 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.

Kristoffer in other languages

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

KesterKristofChristofChristophCristobalKristoferKrzysztofChristoferChristopheChristofferChristopherKristófKrištofKryštofChristovKristapsCristòfolCristóbalCristóvãoKristóferCristoforoKhristoforCristoffaroChristophorus

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

Kristoffer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,021
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,432
Best rank ever
#457
1978
Peak year
1978
305 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,940
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Kristoffer

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

KristoferChristoferCristoferKrishnaKristaferKristopherKristenKristianKristiferKrishivKristoffKristoforKrishKristanKristopferJenniferKristonKristinKrishanKrithikKrishavChristofferKieferKriyansh

Names with a curve like Kristoffer

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

JeremieJeramyJeremeyTremayneJeramieAntioneChadrickTavaresJeromyChaddJermainJereme

Sibling names for Kristoffer

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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