The CHRISTOPHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	28,493	1124	0.011	106
United States (1880 census)	3,793	1618	0.008	76
Change since 1880	+24700	+494	+0.003	+30
Other Countries
Australia	710	2279	0.004	43
United Kingdom	3,053	2035	0.007	66

Top States for CHRISTOPHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,070	1330	0.010	99
California	1,985	1801	0.006	59
New York	1,973	994	0.010	104
Florida	1,783	1276	0.011	112
Pennsylvania	1,366	1114	0.011	111
Top States for CHRISTOPHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	200	729	0.026	255
Alabama	890	936	0.020	200
South Carolina	775	921	0.019	193
Georgia	1,296	922	0.016	158
Tennessee	855	1139	0.015	150

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHRISTOPHER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHRISTOPHER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHRISTOPHER in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHRISTOPHER by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHRISTOPHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHRISTOPHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CHRISTOPHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CHRISTOPHER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	744	2.61
Mixed Race	541	1.9
Asian/Pacific	271	0.95
Native American/Alaskan	103	0.36
White (Caucasian)	21,866	76.74
Black/African American	4,969	17.44

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHRISTOPHER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to CHRISTOPHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHRISTOPHER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.