Christopher
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Christopher is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the personal name Christopher, literally ‘bearer of Christ’ (Greek Khristophoros).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 182(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 222
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 254
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #62 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 680 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 182 (inferred from the name graph)
1,499,872 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the personal name Christopher, literally ‘bearer of Christ’ (Greek Khristophoros).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Christopher counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #24 | 1,499,872 | 1 in 222 | 1.5M | Christopher | 680 |
| GB United Kingdom | #18 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 182 | 4 | Christopher | 416 |
| NG Nigeria | #83 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 637 | — | Christopher | 155 |
| PH Philippines | #35 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 504 | 29K | Christopher | 194 |
| EG Egypt | #421 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 941 | — | Christopher | 50 |
| AU Australia | #33 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | 108 | Christopher | 344 |
| NZ New Zealand | #28 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 254 | 10 | Christopher | 189 |
| IE Ireland | #36 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 324 | — | Christopher | 174 |
1,499,872 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Christopher is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Greek Christopherus ‘Christ-bearing’; first attested Christoforus 1209 P (Hu)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Bearing Christ; patron saint of travellers
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme anglaise de Christophe, du grec Christophoros, « porteur du Christ ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, Old English; bearing Christ
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christopher Wrenb. 1632GBEnglish architect (1632–1723)
- Christopher Plummerb. 1929CACanadian actor (1929–2021)
- Christopher Lloydb. 1938USAmerican actor (born 1938)
- Christopher Reeveb. 1952USAmerican actor (1952–2004)
- Criss Angelb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican illusionist (born 1967)
- Chris Tuckerb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
- Ashton Kutcherb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Chris Pineb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1980)
- Chris Evansb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1981)
- Chris Brownb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1989)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 138 sources across 69 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 29K | #1,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 28K | #1,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 25K | #1,369 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Christopher?
- In the etymology graph, Christophe, Christoph and Krzysztof are forms of the same name in other languages; Chris, Kit and Chip are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Christopher mean, and where does it come from?
- From the personal name Christopher, literally ‘bearer of Christ’ (Greek Khristophoros). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Christopher a male or female name?
- Christopher is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Christopher?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,499,872 people named Christopher in 2020, about 1 in 222 residents.
- How common is Christopher compared with other names?
- In the United States, Christopher is the 24th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Christopher have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Christopher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christopher.
What do you want to know about Christopher?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/christopherThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Christopher” — the 24th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.