Kristensen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Kristen (see Christian)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kʰʁ̥ɛsd̥ənsn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kristensen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 105(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 416
- SESweden1 in 7.4K
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 Kristensen 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- 1 in 105 (inferred from the name graph)
55,775 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Christenson in US United States, EG Egypt, IS Iceland.
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)
patronymic from the personal name Kristen (see Christian).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kristensen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #13 | 55,775 | 1 in 105 | 56K | Kristensen | 217 |
| NO Norway | #41 | 13,128 | 1 in 416 | 13K | Kristensen | 92 |
| US United States | — | 10,707as Christenson | 1 in 31K | 11K | Christenson | 390 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Christenson | 3 |
| SE Sweden | #279 | 1,387 | 1 in 7.4K | 1.4K | Kristensen | 57 |
| GL Greenland | #4 | 511 | 1 in 113 | 511 | Kristensen | 16 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 1 | Christenson | 8 |
55,775 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Kristensen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, a common surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Knud Kristensenb. 1880DKDanish politician (1880–1962)
- Tom Kristensenb. 1893GBDanish writer (1893–1974)
- Finn Kristensenb. 1936NONorwegian politician
- Reinhardt Kristensenb. 1948DKDanish biologist
- Preben Kristensenb. 1953DKDanish actor
- Henrik Dam Kristensenb. 1957DKDanish politician
- Mr. Le Mansb. 1967DKnot in their usual nameDanish racing driver
- Jesper Juelsgårdb. 1989DKnot in their usual nameDanish footballer
- Rasmus Kristensenb. 1997DKDanish association football player
- Thomas T. Kristensenb. 2002DKDanish association football player
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 38 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Kristensen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Kristen (see Christian). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kristensen?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰʁ̥ɛsd̥ənsn̩/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Kristensen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 56 thousand people named Kristensen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristensen.
- Where is Kristensen most common?
- Kristensen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 105 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kristensen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 55,775 people named Kristensen, about 1 in 105 residents.
- How common is Kristensen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Kristensen is the 13th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kristensen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristensenThe 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, “Kristensen” — the 13th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.