Christofer

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Christopher

Related Names

See Christopher

Patronyms

Norwegian: Christofersen (♂)

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: Officially rejected as a given name on 18 July 2005

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Lappland (19th century) see map
  • Ångermanland (19th century) see map

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		1769	3079	0	0	1769	3079
Finland		n.a.	199	0	0	n.a.	199
Denmark		3	n.a.	0	n.a.	3	n.a.
Iceland		2	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		78	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	78	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Christofer (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.