Kristjan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Christian

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kristjan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Romania it is the 4th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 102as Kristian(measured from records)
  • RORomania≈1 in 148as Cristian
  • CLChile≈1 in 160as 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 Kristjan 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)

415,787 named Christian, 2020

#171 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
599 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 102 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland, as Kristian

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CristianLatin(measured from records)
כריסטיאןHebrew(measured from records)
ΚριστιάνGreek(measured from records)
ՔրիստիանArmenian(measured from records)
КристианCyrillic(measured from records)
크리스천Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cristian in AR Argentina, CL Chile, CO Colombia and 2 more, Christian in US United States, Cristiane in BR Brazil and Kristian in FI Finland.

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 male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Christian

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kristjan 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.

Where Kristjan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#282415,787as Christian1 in 800398KChristian599
BR Brazil#48306,307as Cristiane1 in 691329KCristiane213
AR Argentina#73≈250,000 est.≈1 in 180370Cristian197
CO Colombia#37≈190,000 est.≈1 in 26374Cristian194
RO Romania#4≈140,000 est.≈1 in 148—Cristian188
CL Chile#29≈110,000 est.≈1 in 160218Cristian199
HU Hungary—54,911as Krisztián1 in 17855K—2
FI Finland#30454,680as Kristian1 in 10260KKristian90
DK Denmark#75437,349as Christian1 in 15737KCristian72

415,787 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kristjan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Krìstjãñ

  • Croatian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Croatia, United States, Estonia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian

    Also written Kristján

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kristján

  • Russian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Кристьян, Кристян, Kristyan, Крістян, Kristján

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Estonia, United States, Slovenia

    Also written Kristján

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kristjan 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 Slovenian, Christian (follower of the Christian religion)

    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)

1400160018002000Christian II, b. 1481Johann Christian Bach, b. 1735Christian VIII of Denmark, b. 1786Leopold I of Belgium, b. 1790Christian X, b. 1870Haakon VII of Norway, b. 1872Christian B. Anfinsen, b. 1916Jens Christian Skou, b. 1918Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, b. 1960Frederik X, b. 1968
  • Christian IIb. 1481DKnot in their usual nameking of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
  • Johann Christian Bachb. 1735DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer (1735–1782)
  • Christian VIII of Denmarkb. 1786DKnot in their usual nameKing of Norway 1814, King of Denmark 1839-1848
  • Leopold I of Belgiumb. 1790BEnot in their usual nameGerman prince who became the first King of the Belgians (1790–1865)
  • Christian Xb. 1870DKnot in their usual nameKing of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland (1918–1944)
  • Haakon VII of Norwayb. 1872NOnot in their usual nameKing of Norway from 1905 to 1957 (1872–1957)
  • Christian B. Anfinsenb. 1916USnot in their usual nameAmerican biochemist (1916–1995)
  • Jens Christian Skoub. 1918DKnot in their usual nameDanish chemist (1918-2018)
  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorb. 1960GBnot in their usual namethird child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960)
  • Frederik Xb. 1968FRnot in their usual nameKing of Denmark since 2024

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)

InformalTere Kristjan,Hi Kristjan, (English)

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 45 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Kristjan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.2K#699
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020362#25,331
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—93—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—91#1,533
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013#25,331
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20206—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Kristjan mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Christian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Kristjan a male or female name?
Kristjan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What are other forms of the name Kristjan?
In the etymology graph, Christian, Carsten and Karsten are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Kristjan 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 Kristjan most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Kristjan itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 102 people named Kristian.
How common is the name Kristjan?
In the United States, the national register counted 415,787 people named Christian in 2020, about 1 in 800 residents.
How common is Kristjan compared with other names?
In the United States, Kristjan is the 282nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Kristjan” — the 282nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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