Kristinn
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/kʰrɪstɪn/(machine-generated) Icelandic · model-generated
Kristinn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country: 1,233 people, counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands in 2026. Recorded meaning: From kristinn (“Christian, of the Christian faith”), a translation of Latin Christianus.
- ISIceland1 in 284(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 136K
- SESweden1 in 268K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 284 (inferred from the name graph)
1,233 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kristinn
- Icelandic:/kʰrɪstɪn/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From kristinn (“Christian, of the Christian faith”), a translation of Latin Christianus.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kristinn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #104 | 1,233 | 1 in 284 | 1.4K | Kristinn | 83 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 5 | Kristinn | 37 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 110 | Kristinn | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 43 | 1 in 136K | 43 | Kristinn | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Kristinn | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | Kristinn | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kristinn | 5 |
1,233 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)Kristinn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, Christian (belonging to the Christian faith)
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)- Kristinn Sigmundssonb. 1951ISIcelandic opera singer
- Kristinn Hrafnssonb. 1962ISIcelandic journalist
- Kristinn Jakobssonb. 1969ISIcelandic football referee
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kristinn mean, and where does it come from?
- From kristinn (“Christian, of the Christian faith”), a translation of Latin Christianus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Kristinn?
- In the etymology graph, Christian is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kristinn?
- In Icelandic /kʰrɪstɪn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kristinn a male or female name?
- Kristinn is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands, 2005) and Norway (SSB).
- Which countries have the most people named Kristinn?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Kristinn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristinn. After it come United States, Norway, Denmark and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kristinn most common?
- Kristinn is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 284 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kristinn?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1,233 people named Kristinn in 2026, about 1 in 284 residents.
- How common is Kristinn compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Kristinn is the 104th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kristinn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristinnThe 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, “Kristinn” — ranked 18th in Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.