Kristoffer

Where Kristoffer comes from

Kristoffer 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. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,966 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #457
    305 babies named Kristoffer — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #733.
  4. 1989
    Kristoffer Nordfeldt born
    Swedish association football player
  5. 1998
    Kristoffer Ajer born
    Norwegian association football player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kristoffer Ajer · Norwegian association football player, born 1998
  • Kristoffer Nordfeldt · Swedish association football player, born 1989
  • Kristoffer Olsson · Swedish footballer, born 1995
  • Kristoffer Polaha · American actor, born 1977
  • Kristoffer Halvorsen · Norwegian road cyclist, born 1996

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.