Christoffer

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Kristoffer

Related Names

See Christopher

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Christoffersen
Christofferson
Christoffersson

Female

Christoffersdatter
Christoffersdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Christoffer
Genitive:	Christoffers

- Finnish
Nominative:	Christoffer
Genitive:	Christofferin
Partitive:	Christofferia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Christoffer
Genitive:	Christoffers

- Swedish
Nominative:	Christoffer
Genitive:	Christoffers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark:
  • A name mentioned in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
  • Skast herreds tingbog 1636

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: Top 17 in the 17th century in Nakskov
• Sweden: 1980-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Gotland (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		12296	20214	3	5	12293	20209
Denmark		6154	n.a.	1	n.a.	6153	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1706	0	0	n.a.	1706
Greenland		7	9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		1	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		4944	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	4944	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 Christoffer (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.