Given name & surname
Christoffer
“one who bears Christ inside”
Christoffer is a variant of Christopher. One Greek interpretation is “one who bears Christ inside.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Christoffer is a variant of Christopher. One Greek interpretation is “one who bears Christ inside.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Christoffer is a variant of Christopher. An origin associated with Christopher is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Christoffer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 728
- 728 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 37 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 649 as a first name in 2020; 346 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Christoffer’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Christoffer has a diminutive in Krille. Christoffer has a surname derivative in CHRISTOFFERSEN. Christoffer has a related form in Christopher.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Christoffer has relatives in 9 languages.
14 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 23
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Christoffer
- Christopher I of DenmarkKing of Denmark1219–1259
- Christopher II of DenmarkKing of Denmark1276–1332
- Christoffer Wilhelm EckersbergDanish painter (1783–1853)
- Christopher PolhemSwedish inventor (1661-1751)
- Christoffer NymanSwedish footballerborn 1992
- Christoffer AnderssonSwedish footballerborn 1978
- Christoffer BoeDanish filmmakerborn 1974
- Christoffer SundgrenSwedish male curlerborn 1989
- Christoffer RemmerDanish footballerborn 1993
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