Kristin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a variation of Christine, of mostly American use
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kristin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 322(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 63as Kristina
- PLPoland1 in 100as Krystyna
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 Kristin 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #24 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- 1 in 322 (inferred from the name graph)
≈690,000 named Кристина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cristina in ES Spain, PT Portugal, Krystyna in PL Poland, FR France, Christine in US United States and Кристина in RU Russia.
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 female given name from Ancient Greek, a variation of Christine, of mostly American use.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kristin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #59 | ≈690,000 est. | ≈1 in 204 | #42 | Кристина | 213 |
| US United States | #14 | 482,596as Christine | 1 in 689 | 482K | Christine | 644 |
| PL Poland | #15 | 383,140as Krystyna | 1 in 100 | 383K | Krystyna | 165 |
| ES Spain | #17 | 226,072as Cristina | 1 in 221 | 227K | Cristina | 278 |
| FR France | — | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 315 | 281K | Krystyna | 119 |
| SE Sweden | #4 | 161,876as Kristina | 1 in 63 | 162K | Kristina | 144 |
| HU Hungary | — | 75,774as Krisztina | 1 in 129 | 76K | כריסטינה | 3 |
| PT Portugal | #31 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 208 | listed | Cristina | 186 |
| NO Norway | #3 | 16,958 | 1 in 322 | 63K | Kristin | 138 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kristin 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 German, weibl. Vom., (vorwiegend skandinavi sche) Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latvian, savienojumā ar verba "krist" formām vai atvasinājumiem no tā izsaka darbības intensitātes pastiprinājumu; krišus (2)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Kristin Scott Thomasb. 1960GBBritish-French actress
- Kristin Halvorsenb. 1960NONorwegian politician
- Kristin Davisb. 1965USAmerican actress (born 1965)
- Kristin Ottob. 1966DEEast German swimmer
- Kristin Bauerb. 1966USAmerican film and television actress
- Kristin Chenowethb. 1968USAmerican actress, singer, author (born 1968)
- Kristin Lehmanb. 1972CACanadian actress
- Tara Lipinskib. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican figure skater (born 1982)
- Kristin Kreukb. 1982CACanadian actress
- Krista Siegfridsb. 1985FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 162K | #342 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 63K | #25 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 17K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16K | #284 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 4.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 876 | #342 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 140 | #12,038 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 130 | #5,664 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 51 | #2,277 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 51 | #2,277 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 29 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Kristin mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, a variation of Christine, of mostly American use. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kristin a male or female name?
- Kristin is a female 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.
- In which country does Kristin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 695 thousand people named Кристина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kristin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kristin is densest in Norway — about 1 in 322 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kristin?
- In Norway, the national register counted 16,958 people named Kristin in 2025, about 1 in 322 residents.
- How common is Kristin compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kristin is the 59th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Kristin?
- In the etymology graph, Christine, Chris and Christina are forms of the same name in other languages; Kiki and Kjersti are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Kristina.
What do you want to know about Kristin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristinThe 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, “Kristin” — the 59th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.