Christopher

A male given name: from a Greek word meaning “Christ-bearer.”.

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Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (Christóforos). The constituent parts are Χριστός (Christós), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (férein), "bear": the "Christ-bearer". It is related to the names Chris meaning "Anointed" and Christian meaning "follower of Christ" or "little Christ" (all from Greek.)
As a given, or first name, Christopher has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", and sometimes "Kit". Another less common abbreviation is "Topher" or "Toph".
It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland.

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Masc. proper name, Church Latin Christophoros, from Ecclesiastical Greek khristophoros, literally "Christ-bearing;" from phoros "bearer," from pherein "to carry," from PIE root *bher- (1) "to carry," also "to bear children." In medieval legend he was a giant (one of the rare virtuous ones) who aided travellers by carrying them across a river. Medallions with his image worn by travellers are known from the Middle Ages (Chaucer's Yeoman had one). Not a common name in medieval England.

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Derived from the Greek Christophoros, composed of the elements Christos (Christ) and pherein (to bear): bearer of Christ, follower of Christ, a Christian.

Topher, Christina, Christophe, Christoph, Christy, Krištof, Pher, Kristopher, Chris, Kristoffer, Hristofor

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Christopher Columbus	1451	Explorer, navigator, and colonizer
2	Christopher Nolan	1970	British–American film director, screenwriter, and producer
3	Christopher Reeve	1952	Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
4	Christopher Walken	1943	American actor
5	Christopher Hitchens	1949	British American author and journalist
6	Christopher Darden	1956	American lawyer
7	Christopher Plummer	1929	Canadian Academy Award-winning actor
8	Christopher Meloni	1961	American actor
9	Christopher McCandless	1968	American hiker sand explorer
10	Christopher Guest	1948	British and American screenwriter, comedian, musician, director, and actor
11	Christopher Eccleston	1964	English actor
12	Christopher Scarver	1969	Convicted murderer of Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer
13	Christopher Masterson	1980	American actor
14	Christopher Mintz-Plasse	1989	American actor
15	Christopher Paul Neil	1975	Canadian schoolteacher
16	Christopher Lambert	1957	French American actor
17	Christopher Marlowe	1564	English dramatist, poet and translator
18	Christopher Boykin	1972	American entertainer and musician
19	Saint Christopher	0300	Saint in the Catholic and Orthodox church
20	Christopher Jackson	1975	American actor
21	Christopher Knight	1957	American actor
22	William Christopher	1932	American actor
23	Christopher McDonald	1955	American actor
24	Christopher Evan Welch	1965	American actor
25	Christopher Cross	1951	American singer-songwriter
26	Christopher Daniels	1971	American wrestler
27	Christopher Langan	1952	American autodidact
28	Christopher Abbott	1986	American actor
29	Joseph Christopher	1955	American serial killer
30	Christopher Paolini	1983	American author
31	Christopher Atkins	1961	Actor
32	Christopher Moltisanti
33	Christopher Porco	1983	American college student convicted of murdering his father and attempting to murder his mother
34	Tyler Christopher	1972	American actor
35	Christopher Gorham	1974	American actor
36	Christopher McQuarrie	1968	American screenwriter, producer and director
37	Christopher Jarecki		American musician
38	Christopher Sabat	1973	American actor
39	Christopher Robin Milne	1920	As a child, the basis of the character Christopher Robin in Winnie-the-Pooh
40	Christopher Heyerdahl	1963	Canadian actor
41	Christopher Wren	1632	English architect
42	Christopher Poole	1988	American Internet entrepreneur, founder of 4chan
43	Christopher Tolkien	1924	British book editor
44	Christopher George	1929	American actor
45	Christopher A. Wray	1966	American lawyer and nominee for director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
46	Christopher G. Kennedy	1963	American businessman
47	Christopher Williams	1962	American singer
48	Christopher Thomas Knight	1965	American hermit
49	Christopher Biggins	1948	British actor
50	Christopher Massey	1990	American actor
51	Christopher Backus	1981	American actor
52	Christopher Judge	1964	American actor
53	Christopher Mitchum	1943	American actor; politician
54	Brian Christopher	1972	American professional wrestler
55	Christopher Reid	1964	American actor, singer and comedian
56	Christopher Titus	1964	Actor, writer, podcaster
57	Christopher Nowinski	1978	American professional wrestler
58	Christopher Kimball	1951	American chef, editor, publisher, and radio/TV personality
59	Christopher Isherwood	1904	English novelist
60	Christopher Rich	1953	American actor
61	Christopher Larkin	1987	American actor
62	Christopher Pettiet	1976	Actor
63	Christopher Vélez		American singer of Ecuadorian descent
64	Dennis Christopher	1955	American actor
65	Warren Christopher	1925	Former U.S. Secretary of State
66	Christopher Daniel Barnes	1972	Actor
67	Christopher Wilder	1945	Serial killer from Australia
68	Christopher Trumbo	1940	American screenwriter
69	Christopher O'Neill	1974	British businessperson
70	Christopher Samba	1984	Footballer
71	Christopher Robin		Fictional character created by A. A. Milne
72	Christopher Wallace Jr.	1996	American actor
73	Christopher Cazenove	1943	British actor
74	Christopher Timothy	1940	British actor
75	Christopher Chaplin	1962	British actor
76	Chris Egan	1984	Australian actor
77	Christopher Lawford	1955	Actor, author, activist
78	Christopher Hewett	1921	Actor, theatre director
79	Christopher Coke	1969	Alleged drug lord
80	Christopher Mayer	1954	Actor
81	Christopher Bailey	1971	British fashion designer
82	Christopher Nixon Cox	1979	American lawyer
83	Christopher Buckley	1952	American writer
84	Christopher Latham Sholes	1819	American politician
85	Christopher Fairbank	1953	British actor
86	Christopher Jones	1941	American stage, movie, and television actor
87	Christopher Coppola	1962	Film director and producer
88	Christopher B. Landon	1975	American screenwriter
89	Christopher Castile	1980	American child actor
90	Sybil Christopher	1929	British actress
91	Christopher Pyne	1967	Australian politician
92	Christopher Ciccone	1960	American artist, film director and author
93	Christopher Stone	1942	American actor
94	Christopher Moore	1957	American writer of comic fantasy
95	Christopher Dale Flannery	1948	Australian murderer
96	Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley	1952	British public speaker and hereditary peer
97	Christopher Hughes	1947	British quizzer
98	Christopher von Uckermann	1986	Mexican actor and singer
99	Christopher Alexander	1936	Architect
100	Christopher Guard	1953	British actor
101	Christopher Geidt	1961	Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
102	Christopher	1992	Danish singer
103	Christopher B. Duncan	1970	Actor
104	Christopher Stanley	2000	American actor
105	Christopher Doyle	1952	Australian cinematographer and film director
106	Christopher Steele	1964	A former British intelligence officer
107	Christopher Denham	2000	Actor
108	Christopher Lee	1971	Singaporean actor and singer
109	Christopher Pike	1954	American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
110	Christopher Lloyd	1960	Screenwriter, producer
111	Christopher John Boyce	1953	American bank robber
112	Christopher Lauer	1984	German politician
113	Christopher Beeny	1941	British actor
114	Christopher Cousins	1960	Actor
115	Christopher Leoni	1984	Brazilian actor
116	Christopher Sieber	1969	American actor
117	Christopher Perkins		Game designer
118	Christopher Dean	1958	English figure skater
119	Christopher de Leon	1956	Filipino actor-politician
120	Christopher Posch	1976	German actor and lawyer
121	Christopher Newport	1561	English privateer
122	Christopher Tin	1976	Composer
123	Christopher Collins	1949	Actor, voice artist and comedian
124	Christopher Nkunku	1997	French association football player
125	Christopher Gadsden	1724	American soldier and politician
126	Christopher Browning	1944	An American historian of the Holocaust
127	Philipp Christopher	1977	German film director
128	Christopher Turk
129	Christopher Sean	1985
130	Christopher Quinten	1957	British actor
131	Christopher Fitzgerald	1972	American actor
132	Christopher Ruddy	1965	American journalist
133	Christopher Chenery	1886	American businessman and racehorse owner
134	Christopher Priest	1943	British speculative fiction writer
135	Christopher Knights		English voice actor, film editor and camera operator
136	Christopher Norris	1953	American actress
137	Christopher Cain	1943	American film director
138	Christopher Makos	1948	American photographer
139	Christopher Scott	1983	American actor, dancer and choreographer
140	Christopher Cox	1952	American lawyer and politician
141	Christopher Brookmyre	1968	Scottish novelist
142	Christopher Hart	1961	American actor
143	Christopher Murray	1957	Actor
144	Christopher Lasch	1932	American historian
145	Christopher Skase	1948	Australian businessman
146	Christopher Wreh	1975	Professional footballer
147	Christopher Greener	1943	British basketball player
148	Christopher Martin	1987	Jamaican musician
149	Christopher Ryan	1962	American writer
150	Christopher Wheeldon	1973	Contemporary ballet choreographer
151	Christopher Young	1958	American film score and television composer
152	Christopher Collet	1968	American actor
153	Luke Christopher	1993
154	Christopher Dorner	1979	LAPD police officer and United States Navy reservist
155	Christopher Paul Curtis	1953	American children's writer
156	Christopher Rice	1978	American fiction writer
157	Christopher Ayres	1965	American voice actor, ADR director, and script writer
158	Christopher Lennertz	1972	American composer
159	Christopher Kane	1982	Scottish fashion designer
160	Christopher Cassidy	1970	American astronaut and U.S. Navy SEAL
161	Christopher Cowdray	1955	Zimbabwean businessman
162	Christopher Noxon	1968	American journalist, writer
163	Christopher Fulford	1955	British actor
164	Christopher Weaver		American entrepreneur, author, software developer, scientist, and educator at MIT
165	Christopher Allport	1947	American actor
166	Jason Christopher	1971
167	Christopher L. Eisgruber	1961	American lawyer and university president
168	Christopher Lewis	1944	American film producer and screenwriter
169	Christopher Booker	1937	English journalist and author
170	Christopher McDougall	1962	American journalist and writer
171	Christopher Hampton	1946	British playwright, screenwriter and film director
172	Christopher Durang	1949	American playwright
173	Christopher Soames	1920	British politician
174	Christopher Amoroso	1972	Port Authority Police Department officer
175	Christopher Nugee	1959	British judge
176	Christopher Villiers	1960	British actor, screenwriter and film producer
177	Christopher McCulloch	1971	Writer
178	Christopher Ilitch	1965
179	Christopher Schindler	1990	German footballer
180	Christopher of Bavaria	1416	King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
181	Christopher Morley	1890	American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
182	Christopher Yost	1973	American comics writer
183	Christopher Rush	1965	Magic: The Gathering artist
184	Christopher Neame	1947	British actor
185	Christopher R. Hill	1952	American diplomat
186	Christopher Jacot	1979	Voice actor and actor
187	Christopher Malcolm	1946	Scottish television and film actor, director and producer
188	Christopher Heinz	1973	American businessman
189	Christopher Corey Smith		American actor
190	Christopher Wool	1955	American artist
191	Christopher Barker	1960
192	Christopher Parker	1983	English actor
193	Christopher Ewing
194	Christopher Murney	1943	American actor
195	Christopher Chataway	1931	British Runner
196	Christopher Awdry	1940	British writer
197	Christopher Forrester	1992	Irish footballer
198	Christopher Bollemeyer	1976
199	Christopher Gartin	1975	American actor
200	Christopher Peters	1968	American film producer and writer