Cristoforo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: dal greco Christophoros, 'portatore di Cristo'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kristɔforo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cristoforo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 414K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dal greco Christophoros, 'portatore di Cristo'.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cristoforo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 3 | Cristoforo | 19 |
| AR Argentina | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 453K | 47 | Cristoforo | 25 |
| US United States | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 157 | Cristoforo | 32 |
| BR Brazil | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | 143 | Cristoforo | 31 |
| BE Belgium | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 414K | 6 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 14 | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 16 | — | 7 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)
Cristoforo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal greco: ‘portatore di Cristo’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma italiana de Christophorus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Colui che porta Cristo nel cuore
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Cristoforo Buondelmontib. 1385FR15th-century Italian writer and geographer
- Cristoforo, Doge of Venice Morob. 1390ITDoge of Venice
- Cristoforo di Messisbugob. 1401ITItalian chef
- Cristoforo Landinob. 1424IThumanist, philosopher and writer from Italy
- Christopher Columbusb. 1450ITnot in their usual nameItalian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
- Cristoforo Solarib. 1468CHItalian sculptor and architect (1468-1524)
- Cristoforo Madruzzob. 1512ITCatholic cardinal
- Cristoforo Roncallib. 1552ITItalian painter (c.1553-1626)
- Cristoforo Caresanab. 1640ITItalian composer
- Cristoforo Negrib. 1809ITItalian geographer, economist and diplomat (1809-1896)
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #7,814 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 14 | #8,203 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1950 | 6 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 6 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 5 | #1,448 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1947 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1947 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1945 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1945 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1935 | 4 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1935 | 4 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 3 | #2,221 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Cristoforo?
- In the etymology graph, Christopher, Chris and Christophe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cristoforo?
- A machine transcription gives /kristɔforo/ (IPA) for Italian.
- Is Cristoforo a male or female name?
- Cristoforo 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 does the name Cristoforo mean?
- Recorded meaning: dal greco Christophoros, 'portatore di Cristo'.
- In which country does Cristoforo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Cristoforo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cristoforo.
- How common is the name Cristoforo?
- In Poland, the national register counted 14 people named Cristoforo in 2026, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cristoforo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cristoforoThe 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, “Cristoforo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.