Kristoffer
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Scandinavian: 'bearing Christ'; patron saint of travellers
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/krɪstɔffɛr/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Kristoffer is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Norway it is the 82nd most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 538(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 747
- DKDenmark1 in 1.4K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 538 (inferred from the name graph)
13,660 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Scandinavian: 'bearing Christ'; patron saint of travellers
Cited for this meaning 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kristoffer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #209 | 13,660 | 1 in 747 | 14K | Kristoffer | 113 |
| NO Norway | #82 | 10,171 | 1 in 538 | 39K | Kristoffer | 128 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kristoffer | 95 |
| DK Denmark | #191 | 4,297 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.3K | Kristoffer | 131 |
| BJ Benin | #163 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Kristoffer | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,292 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.6K | Kristoffer | 18 |
13,660 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Kristoffer 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 German, männl. Vom., (vorwiegend skandi navische) Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Kris Kristoffersonb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican country singer, songwriter and actor (1936-2024)
- Kristoffer Taborib. 1952USAmerican actor and director
- Kristoffer Jonerb. 1972NONorwegian actor
- Kristoffer Polahab. 1977USAmerican actor
- Kristoffer Borglib. 1985NONorwegian director
- Kristoffer Nordfeldtb. 1989SESwedish association football player
- Kristoffer Petersonb. 1994SESwedish footballer
- Emil Krafthb. 1994SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
- Kristoffer Olssonb. 1995SESwedish footballer
- Kristoffer Ajerb. 1998NONorwegian association football player (born 1998)
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)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Kristoffer mean, and where does it come from?
- Scandinavian: 'bearing Christ'; patron saint of travellers Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Kristoffer?
- In the etymology graph, Christopher, Chris and Christophe are forms of the same name in other languages; Risto is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Kristoffer?
- It depends on the language: in Norwegian /krɪstɔffɛr/; in Swedish /krɪs̪t̪ɔfɛr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kristoffer a male or female name?
- Kristoffer is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- In which country does Kristoffer have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Kristoffer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kristoffer.
- Where is Kristoffer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kristoffer is densest in Norway — about 1 in 538 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kristoffer?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 13,660 people named Kristoffer, about 1 in 747 residents.
- How common is Kristoffer compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Kristoffer is the 209th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kristoffer?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kristofferThe 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, “Kristoffer” — the 209th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.