Kristoffer
Danish
Proper noun
Kristoffer
- a male given name, variant of Christoffer.
Norwegian
Alternative forms
- Christopher
- Kristoffer
Proper noun
Kristoffer
- a male given name, equivalent to English Christopher.
Related terms
- (male given names) Chris
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Saint's name of Ancient Greek origin, cognate with English Christopher. First recorded in Sweden as Christopher in 1277.
Proper noun
Kristoffer c (genitive Kristoffers)
- a male given name.
Related terms
- (surnames) Christoffersson, Kristoffersson
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 13 061 males with the given name Kristoffer (compared to 19 424 named Christoffer) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Categories:
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish male given names
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian male given names
- Swedish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish male given names