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Christopher
Pronounced /ˈkɹɪs.tə.fɚ/
Rank in 2024
#61
Born in 2024
5,054
Peak year
1984 · #2
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 5,054 boys were named Christopher, about 1 in every 339.
- It peaked in 1984 with 60,019 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 2,064,796 boys have been named Christopher since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Christopher per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 4.7Boomers1946–64
- 24.8Gen X1965–80
- 25.8Millennials1981–96
- 10.3Gen Z1997–12
- 4.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 4,712 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Silent: 8,227 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Boomers: 177,322 babies, 4.72 per 1,000. Gen X: 673,592 babies, 24.75 per 1,000. Millennials: 784,367 babies, 25.77 per 1,000. Gen Z: 324,328 babies, 10.33 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 90,773 babies, 4.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Late Latin Christophorus, from Koine Greek Χρῑστόφορος (Khrīstóphoros, “carrier of Christ”), from Ancient Greek Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + φόρος (phóros, “carrier, bearer”), from φέρειν (phérein, “to carry, to bear”) + -ος (-os, “-er: forming agent nouns”), from the legend of Saint Christopher carrying the infant Jesus across a river.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈkɹɪs.tə.fɚ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Christopher, CC BY-SA 4.0.