Ægir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ægir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Ægir.
- ISIceland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 451K
- NONorway≈1 in 899K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ægir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
277 people, 2026
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 Aegir in US United States.
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)
From Old Norse Ægir.
Sources 2
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ægir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #636 | 277 | 1 in 1.3K | 277 | Ægir | 30 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | Ægir | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 10as Aegir | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 50M | — | Aegir | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 899K | 31 | Ægir | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 4 |
277 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Ægir is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A giant and king of the sea, personifying the power thereof. He is the son of Fornjótr, and the brother of Logi and Kári. He has nine daughters — the billow maidens — by his wife, Rán, namely: Bára, Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, and Unnr.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, Ægir (king of the sea)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, the sea, ocean, main
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Sigfús Ægir Árnasonb. 1950ISbadminton player
- Aegir Steinarssonb. 1991ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic basketball player (born 1991)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 277 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 31 | #15,545 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #5,701 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #42,880 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
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 Ægir mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Ægir. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Ægir a male or female name?
- Ægir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ægir have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 277 people named Ægir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ægir.
- Where is Ægir most common?
- Ægir is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ægir?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 277 people named Ægir in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ægir compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Ægir is the 636th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ægir?
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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%A6girThe 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, “Ægir” — the 636th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.