Christofer
Christofer was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,568 among boys’ names; 3,856 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,670 Americans named Christofer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christofer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christofer?
#4,568 among boys’ names, 2025
Christofer fell from #2,690 in 2015 to #4,568 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 12.9 per million.
136 babies in 2007, the peak
Christofer peaked in 2007, when 136 boys were given it, #1,283 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,568 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,709 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,361 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,003 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,514 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,429 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,731 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,802 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,322 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,593 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,690 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,850 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,072 | 34.4 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,801 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 78 | #1,824 | 41.1 |
| 2010 | 95 | #1,643 | 49.5 |
| 2009 | 103 | #1,572 | 51.9 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,391 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,283 | 65.5 |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,369 | 57.4 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,334 | 56.6 |
| 2004 | 81 | #1,606 | 40.8 |
| 2003 | 83 | #1,536 | 42.0 |
| 2002 | 79 | #1,556 | 40.7 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,413 | 45.3 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,445 | 43.3 |
| 1999 | 73 | #1,532 | 38.0 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,277 | 49.2 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,479 | 38.2 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,374 | 40.6 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,400 | 37.3 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,319 | 40.4 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,338 | 36.7 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,184 | 44.1 |
| 1991 | 66 | #1,392 | 32.7 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,107 | 45.3 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,204 | 39.5 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,124 | 41.3 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,296 | 30.5 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,161 | 35.8 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,191 | 33.5 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,042 | 40.4 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,180 | 32.9 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,133 | 35.8 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,312 | 27.9 |
| 1980 | 43 | #1,449 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,070 | 40.1 |
| 1978 | 47 | #1,330 | 28.6 |
| 1977 | 46 | #1,336 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,334 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,138 | 35.2 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,183 | 31.2 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,274 | 26.9 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,121 | 32.7 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,239 | 25.4 |
| 1970 | 39 | #1,337 | 21.0 |
| 1969 | 26 | #1,611 | 14.5 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,740 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,044 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,147 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,779 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,226 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,052 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,533 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,252 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,139 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,074 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,069 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,853 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,006 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,559 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,773 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,482 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,167 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,113 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Christofer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christofer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christofer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christofer, and how old are they?
3,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,856 Americans ever recorded as Christofer. The median Christofer alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 3,213 people named Christofer (17 women and girls, 3,196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 104 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 561 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 444 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Christofer born?
The states with the most babies named Christofer are California, Texas and New York, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 518 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 332 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 143 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 128 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Christofer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christofer is most over-represented in California: since 1951 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Christofer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Christofer?
Christofer is a less common spelling of Christopher: SSA has recorded 3,856 Christofer and 2,079,103 Christopher since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,085,574 babies since 1880, Christofer is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 4,770 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | 2,079,103 | 4,748 | 1984 |
| Christofer | 3,856 | 22 | 2007 |
| Christpher | 1,304 | under 5 | 1986 |
| Christoffer | 728 | under 5 | 1990 |
| Christophr | 404 | under 5 | 1972 |
| Christifer | 179 | under 5 | 1983 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Christofer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Christofer and names like it
- Compare Christofer and ChristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChristofer peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christofer since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Christofer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Christofer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.