Kristaps
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kristaps is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek.
- LVLatvia1 in 228(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 8.8K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 228 (inferred from the name graph)
8,257 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 male given name from Ancient Greek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kristaps 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #19 | 8,257 | 1 in 228 | 8.3K | Kristaps | 107 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Kristaps | 61 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 604K | — | Kristaps | 36 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 492 | Kristaps | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Kristaps | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 26 | Kristaps | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 40 | 1 in 8.8K | 40 | — | 3 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Kristaps | 7 |
8,257 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-stat-nimed register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
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 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 40 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 26 | #1,311 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kristaps mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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 are other forms of the name Kristaps?
- In the etymology graph, Christopher, Chris and Christophe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kristaps have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Kristaps, more than in any other country we hold, 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 the name Kristaps?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 8,257 people named Kristaps, about 1 in 228 residents.
- How common is Kristaps compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Kristaps is the 19th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kristaps?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristapsThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kristaps” — the 19th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.