Krystian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/krɨstjan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krystian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Slovakia it is the 78th most common given name. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., polnische.
- PLPoland1 in 344(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 800as Christian
- ESSpain1 in 887as Cristian
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Krystian 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 344 (inferred from the name graph)
415,787 named Christian, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cristian in EC Ecuador, ES Spain, MD Moldova, Кристиан in FI Finland, Kristian in SE Sweden and Kristián in SK Slovakia.
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)
männl. Vom., polnische
Sources 2
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krystian 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 | — | 415,787as Christian | 1 in 800 | 398K | Krystian | 200 |
| PL Poland | #105 | 111,179 | 1 in 344 | 111K | Krystian | 191 |
| BR Brazil | — | 88,637as Cristian | 1 in 2.4K | 89K | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 58,101as Cristian | 1 in 291 | 58K | Cristian | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 56,400as Cristian | 1 in 887 | 56K | Cristian | 38 |
| FI Finland | #742 | 54,680as Kristian | 1 in 102 | 60K | Кристиан | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 39,858as Christian | 1 in 256 | 40K | Kristian | 27 |
| DK Denmark | — | 37,349as Christian | 1 in 157 | 37K | Krystian | 31 |
| MD Moldova | #500 | 15,855as Cristian | 1 in 212 | 16K | Cristian | 7 |
| SK Slovakia | #78 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Kristián | 88 |
415,787 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling christian. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Krystian Lupab. 1943PLPolish theatre director
- Krystian Martinekb. 1948DEPolish-German actor, writer and director
- Krystian Zimermanb. 1956PLPolish classical pianist
- Krystian Balab. 1973PLPolish writer
- Krystian Wieczorekb. 1975PLPolish actor
- Krystian Długopolskib. 1980PLPolish ski jumper
- Krystian Zalewskib. 1989PLPolish steeplechase runner
- Arkadiusz Milikb. 1994PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player
- Krystian Bielikb. 1998PLPolish footballer
- Krystian Ochmanb. 1999USPolish-American singer-songwriter
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 54 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Krystian mean, and where does it come from?
- männl. Vom., polnische Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Krystian?
- A machine transcription gives /krɨstjan/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Krystian a male or female name?
- Krystian 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.
- What are other forms of the name Krystian?
- In the etymology graph, Christian, Carsten and Karsten are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Krystian have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 416 thousand people named Christian, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Krystian most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krystian is densest in Poland — about 1 in 344 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Krystian?
- In Poland, the national register counted 111,179 people named Krystian in 2026, about 1 in 344 residents.
- How common is Krystian compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Krystian is the 78th most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Krystian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krystianThe 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, “Krystian” — the 78th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.