Kristoff
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Altered form of Bulgarian Hristov, a patronymic from the personal name Hristo, Bulgarian form of Christopher
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kɾist̪of/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kristoff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GDGrenada≈1 in 76K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 105K
- UYUruguay1 in 161K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
1,098 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Altered form of Bulgarian Hristov, a patronymic from the personal name Hristo, Bulgarian form of Christopher.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kristoff is found
(measured from records)Kristoff 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 | 1,098 | 1 in 303K | 1.1K | Kristoff | 224 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 266K | listed | Kristoff | 52 |
| CA Canada | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 185K | 3 | Kristoff | 42 |
| AU Australia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 413K | 1 | Kristoff | 33 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Kristoff | 10 |
| NO Norway | 52 | 1 in 105K | 60 | Kristoff | 8 |
| IE Ireland | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Kristoff | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 21 | 1 in 161K | 21 | Kristoff | 5 |
| GD Grenada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 6 | — | 1 |
1,098 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 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)- Jay Kristoffb. 1973AUAustralian science fiction and fantasy author (1973-)
- Alexander Kristoffb. 1987NONorwegian road bicycle racer
- Romano Kristoffb. 2000ESSpanish actor
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)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kristoff mean, and where does it come from?
- Altered form of Bulgarian Hristov, a patronymic from the personal name Hristo, Bulgarian form of Christopher. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kristoff?
- In Spanish /kɾist̪of/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kristoff?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kristoff, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristoff. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kristoff?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,098 people named Kristoff in 2010, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kristoff?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristoffThe 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, “Kristoff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.