Krištof
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kriʂt̪o˦˨f/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krištof is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Slovak equivalent of Christopher, similar to German Christoph.
- HUHungary1 in 377(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 7.5K
- GYGuyana1 in 13Kas Kristoff
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Krištof itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 377 (inferred from the name graph)
25,944 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Christophe in US United States, ES Spain and Kristof in SI Slovenia.
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)
Slovak equivalent of Christopher, similar to German Christoph.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krištof 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | 25,944 | 1 in 377 | 26K | — | — |
| US United States | 4,073as Christophe | 1 in 82K | 4.1K | Christophe | 12 |
| PL Poland | 677as Christoph | 1 in 57K | 677 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 382as Christoph | 1 in 27K | 382 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 336as Christophe | 1 in 149K | 336 | Christophe | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 279 | 1 in 7.5K | 290 | Kristof | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 182as Christoph | 1 in 32K | 182 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 57as Kristoff | 1 in 13K | 57 | — | — |
25,944 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Štefica Krištof-Markanb. 1936HRCroatian basketball player
- Milan Krištofb. 1961CZCzech musician
- Roman Krištofb. 1965CZCzechoslovak journalist
- Viktor Krištofb. 1979CZCzech film producer
- Daniel Krištofb. 1979CZCzech psychologist
- Michal Krištofb. 1986SKSlovak architect
- Edvard KrištofSIresearcher
- Romana KrištofSIresearcher
- Igor KristofCzech producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 192 | #2,247 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #353,462 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #349,773 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Krištof mean, and where does it come from?
- Slovak equivalent of Christopher, similar to German Christoph. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Krištof?
- A machine transcription gives /kriʂt̪o˦˨f/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What are other forms of the name Krištof?
- In the etymology graph, Kester is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Krištof have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Krištof, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Krištof most common?
- Krištof is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 377 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Krištof?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 25,944 people named Krištof in 2025, about 1 in 377 residents.
What do you want to know about Krištof?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kri%C5%A1tofThe 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, “Krištof”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.