Meaning not yet researched.
Christofer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,043 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,043 in 1984; #4,569 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Christofer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,569 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,043.
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Christofer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,043 in 1984 · most boys in one year: 136 (2007).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Christofer, making it the 4,569th most common boys’ name of the year, down 858 places from #3,711 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 30 boys named Christofer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,043, reached in 1984. The most boys given the name in a single year was 136, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,691 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christofer in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 7 babies. In all, 3,856 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,008 babies named Christofer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 296 US boys were named Christofer; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Christopher (2,079,103 babies since 1880), Kristofer (9,791 babies since 1880), Cristobal (8,001 babies since 1880) and Christophe (4,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Christifer and Christafer are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Christifer (179), Christafer (29).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Christofer in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 22 | #4,569 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,711 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,365 |
| 2022 | — | — | 27 | #4,006 |
| 2021 | — | — | 22 | #4,518 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,431 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,734 |
| 2018 | — | — | 28 | #3,806 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,324 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,594 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,691 |
| 2014 | — | — | 41 | #2,852 |
| 2013 | — | — | 65 | #2,073 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,802 |
| 2011 | — | — | 78 | #1,825 |
| 2010 | — | — | 95 | #1,643 |
| 2009 | — | — | 103 | #1,573 |
| 2008 | — | — | 122 | #1,391 |
| 2007 | — | — | 136 | #1,283 |
| 2006 | — | — | 118 | #1,369 |
| 2005 | — | — | 113 | #1,335 |
| 2004 | — | — | 81 | #1,609 |
| 2003 | — | — | 83 | #1,539 |
| 2002 | — | — | 79 | #1,559 |
| 2001 | — | — | 88 | #1,417 |
| 2000 | — | — | 85 | #1,449 |
| 1999 | — | — | 73 | #1,535 |
| 1998 | — | — | 94 | #1,280 |
| 1997 | — | — | 72 | #1,482 |
| 1996 | — | — | 77 | #1,376 |
| 1995 | — | — | 71 | #1,405 |
| 1994 | — | — | 78 | #1,323 |
| 1993 | — | — | 72 | #1,343 |
| 1992 | — | — | 88 | #1,188 |
| 1991 | — | — | 66 | #1,398 |
| 1990 | — | — | 93 | #1,111 |
| 1989 | — | — | 79 | #1,208 |
| 1988 | — | — | 79 | #1,126 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,298 |
| 1986 | — | — | 66 | #1,162 |
| 1985 | — | — | 62 | #1,192 |
| 1984 | — | — | 73 | #1,043 |
| 1983 | — | — | 59 | #1,180 |
| 1982 | — | — | 65 | #1,133 |
| 1981 | — | — | 50 | #1,312 |
| 1980 | — | — | 43 | #1,449 |
| 1979 | — | — | 69 | #1,070 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,330 |
| 1977 | — | — | 46 | #1,336 |
| 1976 | — | — | 44 | #1,334 |
| 1975 | — | — | 55 | #1,138 |
| 1974 | — | — | 49 | #1,183 |
| 1973 | — | — | 42 | #1,274 |
| 1972 | — | — | 53 | #1,121 |
| 1971 | — | — | 45 | #1,239 |
| 1970 | — | — | 39 | #1,338 |
| 1969 | — | — | 26 | #1,612 |
| 1968 | — | — | 21 | #1,741 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,045 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,148 |
| 1965 | — | — | 20 | #1,780 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,227 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,053 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,534 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,253 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,140 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,075 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,070 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,854 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,007 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,560 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,774 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,483 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,168 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,114 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).