Kristinn
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kristinn is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From kristinn (“Christian, of the Christian faith”), a translation of Latin Christianus.
- ISIceland1 in 162◐
- DKDenmark1 in 136K
- NONorway1 in 142K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.2K ●
- Sources
- 81 ●
- 1 in 162 ◐
across 3 countries
653 records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
From kristinn (“Christian, of the Christian faith”), a translation of Latin Christianus.
Sources 2
Attested across 12 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #24 | 2,163△ | 325 rec. | 1 in 162 | 2.2K | Kristinn | 81 |
| US United States | — | 238 | 201 rec. | — | 5 | Kristinn | 38 |
| NO Norway | — | 169 | 51 rec. | — | 110 | Kristinn | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 43 | 26 rec. | 1 in 136K | 43 | Kristinn | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 38△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 268K | 38 | Kristinn | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 14 | 8 rec. | — | — | Kristinn | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Kristinn | 4 |
| PH Philippines | — | 8 | 1 rec. | — | — | Kristinn | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Kristinn | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 1 rec. | — | listed | Kristinn | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | — | 30 | — | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 4 | — | 1 |
Roughly 2.2K people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 162). 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●
- Icelandic10K85%
- English8657%
- Danish2282%
- Norwegian Bokmål1101%
- German981%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 9,997 | 85% |
| English | 865 | 7% |
| Danish | 228 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 110 | 1% |
| German | 98 | 1% |
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●
Kristinn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, Christian (belonging to the Christian faith)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 14 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 16 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 16 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 20 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kristinn Guðmundssonb. 1897ISIcelandic politician
- Kristinn Eyjólfur Andréssonb. 1901ISIcelandic publisher (1901–1973)
- Kristinn Sigmundssonb. 1951ISIcelandic opera singer
- Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarssonb. 1954ISIcelandic musician and mathematician
- Einar Kristinn Guðfinnssonb. 1955ISIcelandic politician
- Kristinn Hrafnssonb. 1962ISIcelandic journalist
- Ari Kristinn Jónssonb. 1968USPh.D. Stanford University 1997
- Kristinn Jakobssonb. 1969ISIcelandic football referee
- Kristinn Jónssonb. 1990ISIcelandic footballer
- Kristinn Steindórssonb. 1990ISIcelandic footballer
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2.2K | #38 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 1.4K | #18 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 1.3K | #20 |
| IS Iceland | Statistics Iceland — Names (1703–present) | — | 1.3K | #20 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 110 | #7,262 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 43 | #2,579 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38 | #16,332 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #15,545 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #16,825 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #21,628 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 18 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kristinn?
- We estimate roughly 2.2 thousand people bear Kristinn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kristinn have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.2 thousand people bear Kristinn in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kristinn.
- Where is Kristinn most common?
- Kristinn is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 162 people carrying it.
- How common is Kristinn compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Kristinn is the 24th most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
- Is Kristinn a male or female name?
- Kristinn 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 Kristinn mean?
- Recorded meaning: From kristinn (“Christian, of the Christian faith”), a translation of Latin Christianus.
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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, “Kristinn” — the 24th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.