Ødegaard

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/øðð̩ɡaɑˀd̥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ødegaard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 646as Ødegård(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 39K
  • GHGhana≈1 in 237Kas Oedegaard

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 Ødegaard 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.

Norway (measured from records)

8,460 named Ødegård

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Oedegaard in SE Sweden, US United States, GH Ghana and Ødegård in NO Norway.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ødegaard 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.

Where Ødegaard is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#2468,460as Ødegård1 in 6468.5KØdegård36
DK Denmark—1501 in 39K150Ødegaard21
GH Ghana—≈120 est.≈1 in 237K—Oedegaard2
SE Sweden—26as Ødegård1 in 392K26Oedegaard3
US United States—≈6 est.≈1 in 54M—Oedegaard12
CH Switzerland—3as Oedegaard1 in 2.8M3—1

8,460 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ødegaard is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Ødegåård, Ødegåard

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ødegaård

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Egypt

    Also written Ødegààrd

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Ole Knutsen Ødegaard, b. 1847Niels Ødegaard, b. 1892Reidar Ødegaard, b. 1901Ivar Ødegaard, b. 1925Hans Erik Ødegaard, b. 1974Alexander Ødegaard, b. 1980Henrik Ødegaard, b. 1988Magnar Ødegaard, b. 1993Helene Spilling Ødegaard, b. 1996Martin Ødegaard, b. 1998

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)

FormalKære ,Dear Ødegaard, (English)
InformalKære ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Ødegaard
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4.7K#171
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—150#3,571
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16#29,417

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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

How do you pronounce Ødegaard?
A machine transcription gives /øðð̩ɡaɑˀd̥/ (IPA) for Danish.
In which country does Ødegaard have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 8.5 thousand people named Ødegård, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ødegaard most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ødegaard is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ødegaard?
In Denmark, the national register counted 150 people named Ødegaard, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
How common is Ødegaard compared with other names?
In Norway, Ødegaard is the 246th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.

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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%B8degaard

The 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, “Ødegaard” — the 246th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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