Christopher
247
Babies in 2024
-41%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 3.48k
-8%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Christopher
Christopher peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (3,483 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 247 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Christopher reached its peak in 1996, when 3,483 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #25 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 247 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 26,849 boys have been officially registered with the name Christopher in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,717 boys were registered with the name, starting from 419 in 2014 and ending at 247 in 2024.