Given name
Kristijan
Kristijan is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kristijan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 33 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 193 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kristijan’s family of names
In Croatian usage, Kristijan has a conventional equivalent in the French form Christian. Kristijan has a related form in Kristian. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Kristijan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Кристиян.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kristijan has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kristijan
- Kristijan JakićCroatian association football playerborn 1997
- Kristijan BistrovićCroatian association football playerborn 1998
- Kristijan Đurasekroad bicycle racerborn 1987
- Kristijan NaumovskiMacedonian footballerborn 1988
- Kristijan FrisSerbian Greco-Roman wrestlerborn 1984
- Kristijan KahlinaCroatian footballerborn 1992
- Kristijan ĐorđevićSerbian footballerborn 1976
- Kristijan IpšaCroatian footballerborn 1986
- Kristijan GolubovićSerbian former mobster and martial artistborn 1969
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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