Kristoffer
Kristoffer was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,021 among boys’ names; 3,940 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,710 Americans named Kristoffer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristoffer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kristoffer mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Kristoffer is “a male given name”
Saint’s name of Ancient Greek origin, cognate with English Christopher. First recorded in Sweden as Christopher in 1277.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kristoffer?
#7,021 among boys’ names, 2025
Kristoffer fell from #4,977 in 2015 to #7,021 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 7.0 per million.
305 babies in 1978, the peak
Kristoffer peaked in 1978, when 305 boys were given it, #457 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,021 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,067 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,312 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,672 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,918 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,589 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,958 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,221 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,521 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,706 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,977 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,605 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,956 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,403 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,591 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,600 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,773 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,846 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,734 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,874 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,550 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,704 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,208 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,767 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 52 | #1,982 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,007 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,861 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 54 | #1,781 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 69 | #1,468 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,339 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,353 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,189 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,236 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,004 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 111 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 107 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 99 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 97 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 119 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 115 | #816 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 127 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 142 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 161 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 142 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 139 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 305 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 223 | #561 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 87 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 109 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 156 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 112 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 77 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 42 | #1,302 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,768 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,188 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,282 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristoffer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristoffer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kristoffer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristoffer, and how old are they?
3,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,940 Americans ever recorded as Kristoffer. The median Kristoffer alive today is 41 years old; half are between 31 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 3,270 people named Kristoffer (5 women and girls, 3,265 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,710 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 626 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 181 |
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 Kristoffer born?
The states with the most babies named Kristoffer are California, New York and Texas, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 649 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 203 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 160 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 115 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 97 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 84 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 62 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Kristoffer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristoffer is most over-represented in California: since 1967 it was given 1.3 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 Kristoffer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,162,407 babies since 1880, Kristoffer is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 5,043 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | 2,079,103 | 4,748 | 1984 |
| Kristopher | 63,548 | 172 | 1978 |
| Kristofer | 9,791 | 31 | 1978 |
| Cristofer | 4,323 | 80 | 2008 |
| Kristoffer | 3,940 | 12 | 1978 |
| Kristofor | 805 | under 5 | 1984 |
| Christoffer | 728 | under 5 | 1990 |
| Krystofer | 169 | under 5 | 1995 |
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 Kristoffer
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 Kristoffer and names like it
- Compare Kristoffer and ChristopherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKristoffer peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristoffer since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Kristoffer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kristoffer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristoffer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.