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Christopher

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

German and English form of Christophorus [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Christofer ♂
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Christoffer ♂
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Christopher ♂
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Cristoffer ♂
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Kristafár ♂
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 Faroese
Kristaver ♂ Norwegian
Kristofer ♂
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 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Kristófer ♂
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 Icelandic
Kristoffer ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Swedish
Kristoffur ♂
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 Faroese
Kristopher ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Offer ♂
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 Danish Norwegian
Stoffer ♂
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Tofferi ♂
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 Finish

See also

For female forms see

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Christophersen Denmark Norway

Female

Christophersdatter Denmark Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Christopher
Genitive: Christophers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Christopher
Genitive: Christopherin
Partitive: Christopheria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Christopher
Accusative: Christopher
Dative: Christopher
Genitive: Christophers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Christopher
Genitive: Christophers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Christopher
Genitive: Christophers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Christopher Polhem (né Christopher Polhammar, 18 December 1661 – 30 August 1751), Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist
  • Christopher Andersen Hornsrud (15 November 1859 – 12 December 1960), former Prime Minister of Norway (1928)

Statistics

Name Count per Country

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
2 6 5454 8863
Norway Norway[7]
0 n.a. 2951 n.a.
Denmark Denmark[8]
0 n.a. 2787 n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
0 0 49 68
Finland Finland[10]
0 0 n.a. 2069
  #: 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

Name statistics for Christopher(m) Sources: [6][8][7][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Christopher(m)

Sources: [6] [8] [7] [10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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