Kristofer

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kristofer is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Iceland it is the 84th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 361◐
  • SESweden1 in 2.3K
  • USUnited States1 in 44K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈14K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
308 ●

57K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 361 ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kristofer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7,52645K rec.1 in 44K7.5KKristofer308
SE Sweden#3904,447△1.8K rec.1 in 2.3K4.4KKristofer78
GB United Kingdom—3,2692K rec.—4Kristofer101
PH Philippines—3,0451.4K rec.——Kristofer39
AU Australia—1,4421.3K rec.—3Kristofer70
CA Canada—1,210818 rec.—1Kristofer72
FR France—1,025689 rec.——Kristofer111
IS Iceland#84972△118 rec.1 in 361972Kristofer33
NO Norway—708160 rec.—540Kristofer24
DE Germany—492438 rec.——Kristofer67
FI Finland—406△27 rec.1 in 14K670—8
MX Mexico—387251 rec.—1Kristofer40

Roughly 7.5K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 44K). 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●

  • English50K59%
  • Spanish5.3K6%
  • Portuguese3.2K4%
  • Icelandic3.2K4%
  • Finnish3K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English49,91859%
Spanish5,3386%
Portuguese3,2344%
Icelandic3,2194%
Finnish2,9764%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kristofer is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name5.5K records spelled Kristofer6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Kristófer

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Kristofer2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Kristófer

  • Polish given name1.3K records spelled Kristofer106 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Christopher, Христофор, Кристофер, Hristofor, Kristopher

  • Indonesian given name763 records spelled Kristofer3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Kristófer

  • a separate given name311 records spelled Kristofer2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Kristófer

  • Greek given name113 records spelled Kristofer5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Also written Christopher, Kristopher, Κριστοφερ, Κρίστοφερ

  • English given name95 records spelled Kristofer161 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Spanish

    Also written Christopher, Kristopher, Cristopher, Christoph, כריסטופר

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Kristofer 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 Swedish, a male given name, a less common form of Kristoffer

    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●

01002003004001960198020002020349 · 1978

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Kristofer in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
19455
19497
19516
19528
19537
19559
195611
195815
195912
196014
196119
196222
196319
196427
196523
196631
196723
196833
196936
197053
197173
1972107
1973141
1974193
1975175
1976210
1977345
1978349
1979247
1980219
1981231
1982284
1983244
1984240
1985273
1986301
1987346
1988329
1989328
1990340
1991316
1992322
1993313
1994298
1995229
1996218
1997214
1998185
1999176
2000193
2001167
2002160
2003133
2004142
2005103
2006133
2007118
2008135
200975
201090
201196
201276
201349
201460
201551
201652
201752
201835
201944
202040
202139
202230
202328
202433
202531

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 75 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Christopher Wren, b. 1632Christopher Plummer, b. 1929Christopher Lloyd, b. 1938Christopher Reeve, b. 1952Criss Angel, b. 1967Chris Tucker, b. 1971Ashton Kutcher, b. 1978Chris Pine, b. 1980Chris Evans, b. 1981Chris Brown, b. 1989
  • Christopher Wrenb. 1632GBnot in their usual nameEnglish architect (1632–1723)
  • Christopher Plummerb. 1929CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor (1929–2021)
  • Christopher Lloydb. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1938)
  • Christopher Reeveb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1952–2004)
  • Criss Angelb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican illusionist (born 1967)
  • Chris Tuckerb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
  • Ashton Kutcherb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
  • Chris Pineb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1980)
  • Chris Evansb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1981)
  • Chris Brownb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1989)

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 62 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Kristofer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.5K#2,974
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.4K#661
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.2K—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—1.3K#132
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—670#1,822
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—540#2,390
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—406—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022289—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—286#19,571
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—169#27,738
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202666#2,762
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—62#2,690

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 355 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kristofer?
We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Kristofer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Kristofer have the most bearers?
We estimate about 7.5 thousand people bear Kristofer in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kristofer.
Where is Kristofer most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kristofer is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 361 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Kristofer compared with other names?
In Iceland, Kristofer is the 84th most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
Is Kristofer a male or female name?
Kristofer 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Kristofer” — the 84th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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