Chistopher
Masculine · “Greek christos and pherein”
The American name data preserves four kinds of error and this is the second commonest. A letter omitted, a letter added, two letters swapped, one letter replaced by another: Chistopher, Chirstopher, Christofer and Micheal are one of each, and all four hold ranks.
How old is the name Chistopher?
Chistopher first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Chistopher alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 1,300 people named Chistopher are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chistopher most popular?
Chistopher peaked in 1973, reaching #1108 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 8,606 places below that high. See the whole 1973 chart.
Where it comes from
From Christophoros to Chistopher
The story of Chistopher
Studies of typing and transcription errors consistently find four types. Substitution, one letter for another, is the commonest, usually a neighboring key. Omission comes second, a letter simply missing. Insertion is third, a letter added, often a doubling. Transposition is fourth, two letters exchanged. The American given-name record preserves all of them because it publishes what was written on the application with no correction, so a name common enough to generate hundreds of errors a year will appear in several damaged forms alongside the correct one. Christopher, Michael, Elizabeth, Jonathan and Katherine are all long enough and common enough to do this. Anyone reading the long tail of the data needs to know that a proportion of it is not names at all but a record of how people mistype.
Meaning
Greek christos and pherein, Christ-bearing
Chistopher is Christopher with the r of the first syllable omitted. Christopher is Greek Christophoros, joining christos, anointed, to pherein, to carry, giving Christ-bearer. The omission is a common copying and typing error, and its rank in the data reflects the frequency of the mistake rather than any naming choice. The peak is 1973.
How the name formed
- Christophoros
- Christopher
- Chistopher
Related forms: Christopher · Cristobal · Cristoforo
Pronouncing Chistopher
KRIS-tuh-fur
Three syllables, stress on the first. The missing r is audible in careful speech, giving KIS-tuh-fur, which is why the error is usually invisible on paper and not in the mouth.
Nicknames for Chistopher
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1958
- Most boys named
- 198559 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1108reached in 1973
- Change vs 2019
- +40.0%7 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Chistopher in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Christopher in English — spelling variant
- Cristobal in Spanish — same name
- Cristoforo in Italian — same name
Chistophers among us
people named Chistopher are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Chistopher
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Geraldine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Chistopher's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Geraldine climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Geraldine's path sketches the road Chistopher is walking now.
Chistopher sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Chistopher beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Chistopher in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Chris is available as a short form and is universally understood.
- The underlying name has a long documented history.
- Christopher is available as the correct spelling.
- It is an omission rather than a variant spelling.
- It will be corrected by almost every reader and system.
- Documents and forms will disagree with each other constantly.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Chistophers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Chistopher are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Chistopher in 2025?
- Chistopher ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Chistopher?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Chistopher — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Chistopher with classmates?
- Chistopher will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Chistopher
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