Cristofaro

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variante regional de Cristoforo

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɾistofaɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cristofaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 96K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 455K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 12K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,300 people, est.

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variante regional de Cristoforo

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cristofaro 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.

Where Cristofaro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈5,300 est.≈1 in 12K3Cristofaro43
AR Argentina4731 in 96K473Cristofaro48
BR Brazil4651 in 455K465Cristofaro55
US United States3191 in 1M349Cristofaro43
FR France≈180 est.≈1 in 379K12—1
CH Switzerland1301 in 65K130Cristofaro8
CU Cuba≈47 est.≈1 in 233K—Cristofaro1
UY Uruguay201 in 169K20Cristofaro6

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cristofaro is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Italy, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Cristófaro

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written Cristofarö, Cristófaro

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cristófaro

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cristofaro is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Cristoforo

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Cristofaro,Dear Cristofaro, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cristofaro,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Cristofaro
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—473—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—465#18,197
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020349#62,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010319#62,714
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000264#69,428
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024130#8,986
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196132—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197121—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—20—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199112—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Cristofaro mean, and where does it come from?
variante regional de Cristoforo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Cristofaro?
A machine transcription gives /kɾistofaɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cristofaro have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Cristofaro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cristofaro.
How common is the name Cristofaro?
In Argentina, the national register counted 473 people named Cristofaro, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.

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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, “Cristofaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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