Kristoffersen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/krɪstɔffɛrsn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kristoffersen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- GLGreenland1 in 353(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 368
- SESweden1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kristoffersen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 353 (inferred from the name graph)
14,854 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Christoffersen in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kristoffersen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 14,854 | 1 in 368 | 15K | Kristoffersen | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 5,955as Christoffersen | 1 in 986 | 6K | — | — |
| US United States | 1,410as Christoffersen | 1 in 236K | 1.5K | Christoffersen | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 229 | 1 in 45K | 229 | — | 1 |
| GL Greenland | 163 | 1 in 353 | 163 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 47 | 1 in 119K | 47 | — | 1 |
14,854 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Torbjørn Kristoffersenb. 1892NONorwegian gymnast (1892-1986)
- Per Kristoffersenb. 1937NONorwegian association football player (1937–2023)
- Herman Kristoffersenb. 1947NONorwegian politician
- Lone Kristoffersenb. 1961DKDanish female curler
- Eirik Kristoffersenb. 1969NONorwegian officer, chief of defense
- Christin Kristoffersenb. 1973NONorwegian politician
- Marthe Kristoffersenb. 1989NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Henrik Kristoffersenb. 1994NONorwegian alpine skier
- Julian Kristoffersenb. 1997NONorwegian association football player
- Elias Kristoffersen Hagenb. 2000NONorwegian footballer
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Kristoffersen mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kristoffersen?
- A machine transcription gives /krɪstɔffɛrsn̩/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Kristoffersen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Kristoffersen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristoffersen.
- Where is Kristoffersen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kristoffersen is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 353 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kristoffersen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 14,854 people named Kristoffersen, about 1 in 368 residents.
What do you want to know about Kristoffersen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristoffersenThe 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, “Kristoffersen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.