What does Christopher mean?

CHRISTOPHER

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: KRIS-to-fur

Means "bearing Christ", derived from Late Greek Χριστος (Christos) combined with φερω (phero) "to bear, to carry". Christopher was the legendary saint who carried the young Jesus across a river. He is the patron saint of travellers. Another famous bearer was Christopher Columbus, the explorer who reached what was believed as the Indies in the 15th century, but was actually the Bahamas.

It is also clear that Greeks thought it was appropriate, being that CHRISTopher means to carry Christ, and the name carries Christ and the Saint indeed carried Jesus, or Christ, across a river.