Ásgeir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Old Norse
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/auːsceir/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ásgeir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 435(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 5K
- SESweden1 in 217K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 435 (inferred from the name graph)
1,101 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Asgeir in NO Norway, IS Iceland.
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 Old Norse
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ásgeir 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.
1,101 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ásgeir Einarssonb. 1809ISIcelandic politician
- Ásgeir Ásgeirssonb. 1894ISIcelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland (1894-1972) Governor of Surtsey (1963-1968)
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússonb. 1909ISIcelandic linguist (1909-1987)
- Ásgeir Sigurvinssonb. 1955ISIcelandic footballer
- Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímssonb. 1984ISIcelandic handball player
- Ásgeir Traustib. 1992ISIcelandic musician
- Ásgeir Orri ÁsgeirssonISIcelandic composer
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 870 | #34 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 827 | #45 |
| IS Iceland | Statistics Iceland — Names (1703–present) | — | 827 | #45 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 806 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,466 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #5,883 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Ásgeir mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ásgeir?
- In the etymology graph, Ansgar, Asger and Ansigar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ásgeir?
- A machine transcription gives /auːsceir/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Ásgeir a male or female name?
- Ásgeir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands, 2005).
- In which country does Ásgeir have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Ásgeir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asgeir.
- Where is Ásgeir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ásgeir is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 435 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ásgeir?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,101 people named Ásgeir in 2025, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ásgeir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1sgeirThe 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, “Ásgeir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.