Kristiņa
surname · Latin script
Kristiņa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A modern Scandinavian spelling variant of Christina. Kristiņa is also written Кристина in Cyrillic, Χριστινα in Greek and קריסטינה in Hebrew.
- SESweden1 in 63(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 213
- PLPoland1 in 100as Krystyna
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kristiņa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #24 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63 (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 named Кристина, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kristiņa in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and 5 more
(measured from records)10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Christine in US United States, DE Germany, Cristina in IT Italy, PT Portugal, Кристина in RU Russia and Krystyna in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A modern Scandinavian spelling variant of Christina
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Russian Names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kristiņa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #59 | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | register #42 | Кристина | 213 |
| US United States | #14 | 482,596as Christine | 1 in 689 | 482K | Christine | 644 |
| PL Poland | #15 | 383,140as Krystyna | 1 in 100 | 383K | Krystyna | 165 |
| DE Germany | #16 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 262 | listed | Christine | 286 |
| IT Italy | #25 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 202 | 112 | Cristina | 232 |
| SE Sweden | #4 | 161,876 | 1 in 63 | 162K | Kristina | 144 |
| PT Portugal | #31 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 133 | listed | Cristina | 186 |
| HU Hungary | — | 75,774as Krisztina | 1 in 129 | 76K | כריסטינה | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kristiņa mean, and where does it come from?
- A modern Scandinavian spelling variant of Christina Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Kristiņa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 724 thousand people named Кристина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Poland, Germany and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kristiņa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kristiņa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 63 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kristiņa?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 161,876 people named Kristiņa, about 1 in 63 residents.
- How common is Kristiņa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kristiņa is the 59th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristi%C5%86aThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kristiņa” — the 59th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.