Christensen
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Christensen is a surname, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Son of Christen’, a Scandinavian and North German male personal name meaning literally ‘Christian’.
- DKDenmark1 in 55◐
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands1 in 220
- NONorway1 in 448
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈200K ●
- Sources
- 450 ●
- 1 in 55 ◐
across 13 countries
763K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
‘Son of Christen’, a Scandinavian and North German male personal name meaning literally ‘Christian’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #6 | 106,860△ | 28K rec. | 1 in 55 | 107K | Christensen | 226 |
| US United States | #372 | 75,143 | 626K rec. | 1 in 4.4K | 75K | Christensen | 450 |
| AU Australia | #385 | 20,080 | 19K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 147 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 19,482 | 18K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 104 |
| CA Canada | #332 | 16,694 | 16K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 143 |
| NO Norway | #51 | 12,210△ | 3.3K rec. | 1 in 448 | 12K | Christensen | 97 |
| SE Sweden | #275 | 3,253 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 3.3K | Christensen | 85 |
| IT Italy | #802 | 3,183 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 22 |
| IL Israel | — | 1,905 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | #282 | 1,897 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 78 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #16 | 1,722 | 5.7K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 2 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #1 | 1,593 | 5.4K rec. | — | — | Christensen | 2 |
Roughly 107K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 55). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English624K51%
- Danish425K35%
- Norwegian30K2%
- Spanish29K2%
- 25K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 623,979 | 51% |
| Danish | 425,386 | 35% |
| Norwegian | 30,383 | 2% |
| Spanish | 28,923 | 2% |
| 24,504 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Christensen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, a common surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Christian; zeigt norddeutsche -sen-Schreibung im Konsonantismus. Variantenschwerpunkt der Karte: Christiansen/Christensen/Carstensen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronym zu Christian; Nebenkarte, mit Varianten im Anlaut und Stammkonsonanten; 810 Belege gesamt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronymischer Familienname auf -sen. In Dänemark sehr häufig; Bildung aus Christen/Christian.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In Norwegian, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 323 |
| 2012 | 321 |
| 2013 | 324 |
| 2014 | 328 |
| 2015 | 328 |
| 2016 | 320 |
| 2017 | 317 |
| 2018 | 313 |
| 2019 | 306 |
| 2020 | 304 |
| 2021 | 318 |
GL Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) — 11 years between 2011–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jesper Allan Christensenb. 1948DKDanish actor
- Pernille Bech Christensenb. 1959DKDanish film editor
- Helena Christensenb. 1968DKDanish model and photographer
- Peter Gadeb. 1976DKnot in their usual nameDanish badminton player
- Charlotte Bruus Christensenb. 1978DKDanish cinematographer
- Hayden Christensenb. 1981CACanadian actor (born 1981)
- Erika Christensenb. 1982USAmerican actress
- Andreas Christensenb. 1996DKDanish association football player
- Oliver Christensenb. 1999DKDanish association football player
- Shawn Christensenb. 2000USfilm maker and musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Christensen?
- We estimate roughly 200 thousand people bear Christensen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Christensen have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 107 thousand people bear Christensen in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled christensen.
- Where is Christensen most common?
- Christensen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 55 people carrying it.
- How common is Christensen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Christensen is the 6th most common surname of 100,227 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Christensen mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Son of Christen’, a Scandinavian and North German male personal name meaning literally ‘Christian’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Christensen” — the 6th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.