Christofer
#4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 73 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,856since 1951
Christofer over time
Rank among boys' names. Christofer has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #4,343 | 24 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2014 | #2,847 | 41 |
| 2013 | #2,065 | 65 |
| 2012 | #1,799 | 82 |
| 2011 | #1,824 | 78 |
| 2010 | #1,639 | 95 |
| 2009 | #1,573 | 103 |
| 2008 | #1,389 | 122 |
| 2007 | #1,283 | 136 |
| 2006 | #1,367 | 118 |
| 2005 | #1,334 | 113 |
| 2004 | #1,604 | 81 |
| 2003 | #1,538 | 83 |
| 2002 | #1,557 | 79 |
| 2001 | #1,415 | 88 |
| 2000 | #1,448 | 85 |
| 1999 | #1,531 | 73 |
| 1998 | #1,280 | 94 |
| 1997 | #1,480 | 72 |
| 1996 | #1,375 | 77 |
| 1995 | #1,405 | 71 |
| 1994 | #1,322 | 78 |
| 1993 | #1,340 | 72 |
| 1992 | #1,187 | 88 |
| 1991 | #1,396 | 66 |
| 1990 | #1,111 | 93 |
| 1989 | #1,205 | 79 |
| 1988 | #1,124 | 79 |
| 1987 | #1,295 | 57 |
| 1986 | #1,161 | 66 |
| 1985 | #1,190 | 62 |
| 1984 | #1,042 | 73 |
| 1983 | #1,178 | 59 |
| 1982 | #1,133 | 65 |
| 1981 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #1,449 | 43 |
| 1979 | #1,070 | 69 |
| 1978 | #1,326 | 47 |
| 1977 | #1,335 | 46 |
| 1976 | #1,333 | 44 |
| 1975 | #1,138 | 55 |
| 1974 | #1,182 | 49 |
| 1973 | #1,268 | 42 |
| 1972 | #1,120 | 53 |
| 1971 | #1,235 | 45 |
| 1970 | #1,337 | 39 |
| 1969 | #1,605 | 26 |
| 1968 | #1,731 | 21 |
| 1967 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #2,132 | 14 |
| 1965 | #1,774 | 20 |
| 1964 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1963 | #2,044 | 16 |
| 1962 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #2,242 | 14 |
| 1960 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | #2,153 | 13 |
| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Christofer! It came in at #3,066, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1959, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Christofer
- 846 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #4,539)
- 1,121 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #4,539)
- 1,855 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #4,539)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1984 at #1,042 (73 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 33 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,260 boys born in 2007 were named Christofer (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,042 in 1984, was only 1 in 24,724 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.1% of all boys named Christofer (1,008) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 74 | #2,153 (1952) | #2,973 |
| 1960s | 166 | #1,605 (1969) | #2,039 |
| 1970s | 489 | #1,070 (1979) | #1,234 |
| 1980s | 633 | #1,042 (1984) | #1,209 |
| 1990s | 784 | #1,111 (1990) | #1,343 |
| 2000s | 1,008 | #1,283 (2007) | #1,451 |
| 2010s | 545 | #1,639 (2010) | #2,627 |
| 2020s | 157 | #3,418 (2020) | #4,080 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Christofer in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 32,088 of them was named Christofer, which outranked 80.3% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,171Ollie50
- #1,171Peyton50
- #1,171Tina50
- #1,182Christofer49
- #1,182Carnell49
- #1,182Conan49
- #1,182Donavon49
- #1,198Alonso48
- #1,198Basil48
- #1,198Corrie48
Tied with 15 names at #1,182; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.