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Kristopher

As a boy's name, Kristopher traces back to Greek, where it is understood to mean "Greek, bearing Christ". It has faded some since the 1980s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. It has shown up in U.S. birth records across 8 of the last twelve decades.

EtymologyVariant of Christopher
GreekGreek – "bearing Christ"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
23
1950s
426
1960s
1,628
1970s
13,973
1980s
20,229
1990s
13,814
2000s
7,755
2010s
3,743
Peaked in the 1980s · 61,591 total U.S. births since 1900