Christopher

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

German and English form of Christophorus ^[1]

Related Names

See Christophorus

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1277 ^[1]

Namesakes

Christopher Polhem (birth name: Polhammar, 18 December 1661 – 30 August 1751), Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist

Christopher Andersen Hornsrud, former Prime Minister of Norway (1928)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	1	5210	8259
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	2494	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	1747	2716
Finland[5]		n.a.	2	n.a	1530
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[2][3][4][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi