Christenson
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Christenson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname. Christenson is also written คริสเตนเซ่น in Thai and Κριστενσεν in Greek.
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 3.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 31K
- CACanada≈1 in 35K
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 Christenson 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
55,775 named Kristensen
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Christenson in other scripts: Thai and Greek
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kristensen in DK Denmark, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Christenson is found
(measured from records)Christenson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #13 | 55,775as Kristensen | 1 in 105 | 56K | Kristensen | 217 |
| NO Norway | #41 | 13,128as Kristensen | 1 in 416 | 13K | Kristensen | 92 |
| US United States | — | 10,707 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Christenson | 390 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 49K | listed | Christenson | 63 |
| SE Sweden | #279 | 1,387as Kristensen | 1 in 7.4K | 1.4K | Kristensen | 57 |
| GL Greenland | #4 | 511as Kristensen | 1 in 113 | 511 | Kristensen | 16 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #50 | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Christenson | 1 |
55,775 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)- Irma Christensonb. 1915SESwedish actress (1915-1993)
- Ryan Christensonb. 1974USAmerican baseball player
- Micah Christensonb. 1993USAmerican volleyball 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Christenson?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 56 thousand people named Kristensen, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Norway, United States, United Kingdom and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Christenson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,707 people named Christenson in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Christenson compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Christenson is the 13th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Christenson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/christensonThe 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, “Christenson” — ranked 13th in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.