Kristofer
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹɪstəfɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kristofer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 44K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 60K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- 1 in 398 (inferred from the name graph)
7,552 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kristófer in IS Iceland.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kristofer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,552 | 1 in 44K | 7.5K | Kristofer | 350 |
| SE Sweden | #415 | 4,447 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.4K | Kristofer | 90 |
| BJ Benin | #280 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Kristofer | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Kristofer | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 4 | Kristofer | 133 |
| IS Iceland | #422 | 882 | 1 in 398 | 882 | Kristófer | 35 |
| FI Finland | — | 406 | 1 in 14K | 670 | — | 7 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 56 | Kristofer | 24 |
7,552 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population 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)
Kristofer 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 Swedish, a male given name, a less common form of Kristoffer
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)
- Christopher Wrenb. 1632GBnot in their usual nameEnglish architect (1632–1723)
- Christopher Plummerb. 1929CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor (1929–2021)
- Christopher Lloydb. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1938)
- Christopher Reeveb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1952–2004)
- Criss Angelb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican illusionist (born 1967)
- Chris Tuckerb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
- Ashton Kutcherb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Chris Pineb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1980)
- Chris Evansb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1981)
- Chris Brownb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1989)
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)
Attested in 64 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.5K | #2,974 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.4K | #661 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.2K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.3K | #132 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 670 | #941 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 406 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | 2021 | 56 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #9,081 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 31 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #2,974 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — newborn names | 2025 | 15 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 are other forms of the name Kristofer?
- In the etymology graph, Christopher and Kristopher are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kristofer?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹɪstəfɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kristofer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Kristofer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristofer.
- Where is Kristofer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kristofer is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 398 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Kristofer a male or female name?
- Kristofer 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.
- How common is the name Kristofer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,552 people named Kristofer in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Kristofer compared with other names?
- In Benin, Kristofer is the 280th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kristofer?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristoferThe 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, “Kristofer” — the 280th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.