Christophe
Christophe reached its high-water mark in 1955 at number 405, and has been recorded 4,476 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 3,400 Christophes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Christophe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,476
- Estimated living today
- 3,400
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1955
- Best rank
- 405th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1929
How old the living Christophes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,476 babies given the name since 1929, about 3,400 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 140 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Christophes
- Christophe Dugarry (born 1972)French footballer
- Christophe Jallet (born 1983)French footballer
- Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990)French athlete
- Christophe Galtier (born 1966)French football manager
- Christophe Soglo (1909–1983)Beninese politician
- Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré (born 1948)former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
- Christophe Laporte (born 1992)French bicycle racer
- Christophe Beck (born 1968)Canadian composer and conductor
People named Christophe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Christophe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Christophe is most concentrated in California (4.2×), New Mexico (3.9×), Washington (2.5×), Oregon (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1955
The most popular boys’ names the year Christophe peaked:
Christophe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Christophe | 375,980 | 1st |
| Belgium boys | Christophe | 945 | 73rd |
| France girls | Christophe | 90 | 1,354th |
| England and Wales boys | Christophe | 43 | 1,425th |
| Scotland boys | Christophe | 4 | 259th |
| Ireland boys | Christophe | 3 | 369th |
| Poland boys | Christophe | 2 birth registrations | 745th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Christophe: rank by region
In 2017, Christophe was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Christophe | 502 | 5 |
In 2013, Christophe was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Christophe | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Christophe among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Christophe | 17 | 46 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Christophe lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 336 men called Christophe were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Christophe | 33 | 0.033 | 1,834 |
| Girona | Christophe | 13 | 0.031 | 1,773 |
| Barcelona | Christophe | 78 | 0.027 | 1,856 |
| Palmas, Las | Christophe | 15 | 0.026 | 2,730 |
| Málaga | Christophe | 19 | 0.022 | 2,077 |
| Balears, Illes | Christophe | 12 | 0.019 | 2,707 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Christophe against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.