Kristaps
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kristaps is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek.
- LVLatvia1 in 228◐
- ISIceland1 in 8.6K
- NONorway1 in 40K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 94 ●
- 1 in 228 ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
5.8K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Крістапс in UA Ukraine and Кристап in KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Ancient Greek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #26 | 8,257 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 228 | 8.3K | Kristaps | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 642 | 452 rec. | — | — | Kristaps | 49 |
| NO Norway | — | 598 | 79 rec. | — | 492 | Kristaps | 15 |
| US United States | — | 370 | 307 rec. | — | — | Kristaps | 60 |
| FI Finland | — | 291 | 6 rec. | — | 277 | Kristaps | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 175 | 158 rec. | — | — | Kristaps | 37 |
| EE Estonia | — | 95 | 40 rec. | — | 26 | Kristaps | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 95 | 72 rec. | — | — | Kristaps | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 84 | 67 rec. | — | — | Kristaps | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 80△ | 15 rec. | 1 in 128K | 80 | Kristaps | 15 |
| IE Ireland | — | 53 | 48 rec. | — | — | Kristaps | 12 |
| PL Poland | — | 48△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 798K | 48 | Kristaps | 6 |
Roughly 8.3K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 228). 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●
- Latvian15K75%
- English9895%
- Norwegian Bokmål4923%
- Estonian4692%
- German3632%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 14,524 | 75% |
| English | 989 | 5% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 492 | 3% |
| Estonian | 469 | 2% |
| German | 363 | 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●
Kristaps is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, kristīgajos nostāstos moceklis, kas cietis ap 250. g. Likijā imperatora Decija valdīšanas laikā, vēlākā tradīcijā šis tēls tiek mitoloģiski stipri stilizēts; leģenda vēstī, ka viņš cēlies no Kanaānas un bijis spēcīgs gigantiska auguma vīrs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 29 |
| 2014 | 33 |
| 2015 | 38 |
| 2016 | 36 |
| 2017 | 49 |
| 2018 | 54 |
| 2019 | 58 |
| 2020 | 58 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kristaps Bahmanisb. 1867LVLatvian politician (1867-1942)
- Kristaps Keggib. 1934LVLatvian orthopedic surgeon
- Kristaps Streičsb. 1970LVLatvian actor
- Kristaps Grebisb. 1980LVLatvian footballer
- Kristaps Sotnieksb. 1987LVLatvian ice hockey player
- Kristaps Mauriņšb. 1991LVLatvian luger
- Kristaps Zvejnieksb. 1992LVLatvian alpine skier, Inline Alpine Slalom racer
- Kristaps Porziņģisb. 1995LVLatvian basketball player (born 1995)
- Kristaps Roberts Zīleb. 1997LVLatvian ice hockey defenseman (born 1997)
- Kristaps Zommersb. 1997LVLatvian association football player
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 8.3K | #48 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 8.3K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 492 | #2,544 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 277 | #2,878 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 80 | #9,901 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 58 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 58 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 54 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 49 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 48 | #3,426 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 42 | #2,633 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 41 | #1,515 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 39 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kristaps?
- We estimate roughly 8.5 thousand people bear Kristaps (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kristaps have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 8.3 thousand people bear Kristaps in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kristaps.
- Where is Kristaps most common?
- Kristaps is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 228 people carrying it.
- How common is Kristaps compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Kristaps is the 26th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Kristaps a male or female name?
- Kristaps is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kristaps mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kristaps” — the 26th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.