Cristofer

Where Cristofer comes from

Cristofer hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,521 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Cristofer Soto born
    Peruvian footballer
  3. 1994
    Cristofer Rosales born
    Nicaraguan boxer
  4. 2006
    Peak, #815
    250 babies named Cristofer — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,691.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cristofer Rosales · Nicaraguan boxer, born 1994
  • Cristofer Soto · Peruvian footballer, born 1990
  • Cristofer Clemente · Spanish male trail runner and sky runner, born 1985
  • Cristofer Salas · Chilean footballer, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.