Björgvin

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Bergen (a port city, municipality, and former county of the county of Vestland, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hordaland)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Björgvin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 523(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 345K
  • SESweden1 in 567K

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.

Iceland (measured from records)

670 people, 2026

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 523 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bjorgvin in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia.

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)

Bergen (a port city, municipality, and former county of the county of Vestland, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hordaland)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Björgvin 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 Björgvin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IS Iceland6701 in 523670—1
SE Sweden181 in 567K18—1
DK Denmark171 in 345K17—1
US United States———Bjorgvin17
DE Germany———Bjorgvin10
AU Australia———Bjorgvin5

670 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Swedish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Bjorgvin

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Bjorgvin

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bjorgvin

5 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)

1850190019502000Björgvin Guðmundsson, b. 1891Björgvin Hólm, b. 1934Björgvin Hermannsson, b. 1938Björgvin Björgvinsson, b. 1949Bjorgvin Halldorsson, b. 1951Björgvin G. Sigurðsson, b. 1970Björgvin Franz Gíslason, b. 1977Björgvin Björgvinsson, b. 1980Björgvin Páll Gústavsson, b. 1985Hörður Björgvin Magnússon, b. 1993

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Björgvin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026670—
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 20232023667#61
IS IcelandStatistics Iceland — Names (1703–present)—667#61
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005616#56
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#26,417
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—17#4,836
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021)202112#50
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — 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 Björgvin mean, and where does it come from?
Bergen (a port city, municipality, and former county of the county of Vestland, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hordaland) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Björgvin?
A machine transcription gives /pjœrkvɪn/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
How common is the name Björgvin?
In Iceland, the national register counted 670 people named Björgvin in 2026, about 1 in 523 residents.
Is Björgvin a male or female name?
Björgvin 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 Björgvin have the most bearers?
In Iceland, the national register counted about 670 people named Björgvin, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Björgvin most common?
Björgvin is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 523 people carrying it.

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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, “Björgvin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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