Kristoff
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Altered form of Bulgarian Hristov, a patronymic from the personal name Hristo, Bulgarian form of Christopher
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹɪstɔf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kristoff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 303K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 98K
- NONorway1 in 105K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, 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.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Kristoff | 1 |
| US United States | 1,098 | 1 in 303K | 1.1K | Kristoff | 224 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 282K | listed | Kristoff | 52 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Kristoff | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 194K | 3 | Kristoff | 42 |
| NO Norway | 52 | 1 in 105K | 60 | Kristoff | 8 |
| HN Honduras | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Kristoff | 6 |
| IE Ireland | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Kristoff | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 21 | 1 in 161K | 21 | Kristoff | 5 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Ivan Kristoffb. 1968RUCanadian aviator
- 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)
Attested in 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,222 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,844 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #25,528 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 21 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɪstɔf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kristoff have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Kristoff in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristoff.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-10.