Re: Ath aeldhôf-vy!

* On 2002-12-20 12:07:01 +0100 John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
> > <Kristopher> seems to me entirely expected if the family
> > hails originally from a non-Anglophone Germanic country.
>
> AFAIK "Christoph" is normal in Germany (I have a cousin there of
> that name).  The only European version of the name I can think of that
> involves "Kr-" is Polish "Krzysztof".
>
> The name "Kristopher" is not utterly unknown, however; googling finds
> about 75,000 instances.  For comparison, "Christopher" shows about
> seven million, "Christoph" about two million, "Christophe" about
> a million and a half, and "Krzysztof" about 680,000.
Kristoffer: 147,000

Other variants like Stoffer and (Ch|K)risto can't be counted as easily
because 'stoffer' is at least Danish and Norwegian plural of 'stoff':
cloth, material, while (Ch|K)risto is used among other things for bible-
software.


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