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Kristaps

Ancient Greek roots

Language contexts for this entry: English, Danish, Latvian

masculineLatin script

No sourced pronunciation yet

Origin: Ancient Greek
3 language contexts: English Danish Latvian
Follow the evidence: 7 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Kristaps

Kristaps is a masculine given name documented in English, Danish and Latvian. English Wiktionary traces it to Ancient Greek Χριστόφορος.

Ancient Greek origin

Source-reported

First recorded in 1638. Ultimately from Ancient Greek Χριστόφορος (Khristóphoros). Cognate to English Christopher.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Kristaps is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Kristaps’s connections around the world.

2 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Language records

Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Ireland

1964–2025 Spelling: Kristaps

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2012: 3; births; Rank #718
Peak year: 2009; 3 births

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Source: Central Statistics Office · Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Kristaps in Ireland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	3	701	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	3	718	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Kristaps” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: First given names on Irish birth registrations; CSO tables VSA50 (boys) and VSA60 (girls). From 2017, births registered during the calendar year.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: CSO publishes names with three or more occurrences. Null cells are not emitted; absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking: Published ranks from VSA50C02 and VSA60C02 retained unchanged, including ties.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Kristaps Porziņģis
born 1995
Latvian basketball player (born 1995)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kristaps Sotnieks
born 1987
Latvian ice hockey player
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Kristaps with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q6437723CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2

Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Kristaps

Kristaps is a masculine given name documented in English, Danish and Latvian. English Wiktionary traces it to Ancient Greek Χριστόφορος.

Ancient Greek origin

Source-reported

First recorded in 1638. Ultimately from Ancient Greek Χριστόφορος (Khristóphoros). Cognate to English Christopher.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Kristaps is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Kristaps’s connections around the world.

2 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Language records

Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Ireland

1964–2025 Spelling: Kristaps

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2012: 3; births; Rank #718
Peak year: 2009; 3 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Central Statistics Office · Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Kristaps in Ireland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	3	701	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	3	718	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: First given names on Irish birth registrations; CSO tables VSA50 (boys) and VSA60 (girls). From 2017, births registered during the calendar year.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: CSO publishes names with three or more occurrences. Null cells are not emitted; absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking: Published ranks from VSA50C02 and VSA60C02 retained unchanged, including ties.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Kristaps Porziņģis
born 1995
Latvian basketball player (born 1995)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kristaps Sotnieks
born 1987
Latvian ice hockey player
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q6437723CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: KristapsCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2

Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Kristaps

Ancient Greek origin

Where Kristaps is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Ireland

History

Notable bearers

Kristaps Porziņģis

Kristaps Sotnieks

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Kristaps

Ancient Greek origin

Where Kristaps is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Ireland

History

Notable bearers

Kristaps Porziņģis

Kristaps Sotnieks

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page