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Craig vs Christopher - What's the difference?

craig | christopher |

As a noun craig

is rock.

As a proper noun christopher is

.

craig

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , originally meaning someone who lived near a crag.
  • transferred from the surname.
  • A river in Alaska and British Columbia.

    • Quotations

    * 1979 Bruce Jackson: The Programmer: A Novel . Doubleday 1979. page 168: *: He told her the name he had used to rent the cabin. " I'm Craig Hemsworth." *: She burst out laughing. "That's a funnier name than mine. It sounds like the kind of name they give a movie actor when they decide his own name won't do.

    Anagrams

    * English male given names from Scottish Gaelic

    christopher

    English

    (wikipedia Christopher)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1594 William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew : Induction, Scene II:
    • Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly's son, of Burtonheath; by birth a pedlar, by education a card-maker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker?
  • * 1934 , The Nine Tailors :
    • - - - a baby, which also happened to fall due, was baptized "Paul" ( for the church ) "Christopher'" ( because St. ' Christopher had to do with rivers and ferries ), the Rector strenuously resisting the parents' desire to call it "Van Weyden Flood".

    • Related terms

    * diminutives: Chris, Christie, Chip, Kit * variants: Kester, Kristopher * feminine forms: Christine