Cristiani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Esterle (trentino), di forma e prohabilriiente di origine tedesca
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries
/kɾiʃtiɐni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cristiani is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 62K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 128K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 232K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
3,396 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Esterle (trentino), di forma e prohabilriiente di origine tedesca.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cristiani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,396 | 1 in 62K | 4.5K | Cristiani | 84 |
| AO Angola | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 563K | — | Cristiani | 3 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Cristiani | 7 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Cristiani | 5 |
| IT Italy | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | listed | Cristiani | 37 |
| PT Portugal | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Cristiani | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 485K | 326 | Cristiani | 25 |
3,396 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)Cristiani 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 Italian, forma plural de Cristiano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, masculine plural of cristiano
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristianib. 1340ITItalian painter (1340-1398)
- Elise Christianib. 1827FRnot in their usual nameFrench cellist
- Léon Cristianib. 1879FRFrench historian (1879-1971)
- Quirino Cristianib. 1896ARArgentine artist (1896-1984)
- Dhia Cristianib. 1921ITItalian actress and voice actress (1921–1977)
- Alfredo Cristianib. 1947SVPresident of El Salvador
- Gabriella Cristianib. 1949ITItalian film editor
- Stefano Cristianib. 1958ITItalian astronomers
- Carlotta Cristianib. 1967ITItalian film editor
- Natalie Cristianib. 1975ITItalian actress
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 342 | #23,719 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 326 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Cristiani?
- A machine transcription gives /kɾiʃtiɐni/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Cristiani a male or female name?
- Cristiani is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- What does the name Cristiani mean?
- Recorded meaning: Esterle (trentino), di forma e prohabilriiente di origine tedesca.
- In which country does Cristiani have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Cristiani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cristiani.
- Where is Cristiani most common?
- Cristiani is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 62 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cristiani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,396 people named Cristiani in 2022, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cristiani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cristianiThe 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, “Cristiani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.