Given name & surname

Kristiano

Kristiano is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Kristiano isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Kristiano through the years

Babies since 1880
73
73 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2016
9 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+100%
Rising fast
02462025Highest share 20200.0
Kristiano in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2010–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Kristiano’s family of names

In Esperanto usage, Kristiano has a conventional equivalent in the French form Christian. In Greek usage, Kristiano as a surname is a transliteration of Κριστιάνο.

Walk Kristiano’s family in the name graph

KristianoΚριστιάνοChristianCristianKristianCristianoKrystianChristiaanChrystianKristjanKristijanChristianusKristiānsCristiánKrisztiánKristián

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Kristiano

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Kristiano, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Krishtian

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Ikeni

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sanskrit · Modern

Hariharan

Hariharan is a surname from Tamil, ultimately from Sanskrit.

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Milliano

14Very rareRising fast

>99% boys

Modern

Vishakan

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Alanso

“prepared for battle; eager and ready”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Daigo

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Kristiano’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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