Hjørdis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Old Norse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jœrd̥is/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hjørdis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 17K
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 female given name from Old Norse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hjørdis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 2.8K | Hjørdis | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 354 | 1 in 17K | 354 | Hjørdis | 24 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | 2 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #103 | — | — | 75 | Hjørdis | 2 |
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); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hjördis Nordin-Tengbomb. 1877SEnot in their usual nameSwedish sculptor (1877-1969)
- Hjørdis Grøntoft Raknerudb. 1878NONorwegian architect (1878-1918)
- Hjördis Lind-Campbellb. 1891SEnot in their usual nameSwedish physician
- Hjördis Töpelb. 1904SEnot in their usual nameswimmer (1904-1987)
- Hjördis Pettersonb. 1908SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1908–1988)
- Hjördis Schymbergb. 1909SEnot in their usual namesinger (1909-2008)
- Marita Nordbergb. 1929FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress (1929-2009)
- Hjördis Levinb. 1930SEnot in their usual nameSwedish historian, author
- Hjördis Nordinb. 1932SEnot in their usual nameSwedish artistic gymnast
- Hjördis Piuva Anderssonb. 1933SEnot in their usual namepainter and writer
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.8K | #876 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 354 | #704 |
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 75 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1946 | 52 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1947 | 39 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1945 | 39 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1950 | 37 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1948 | 32 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1951 | 30 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1953 | 28 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1949 | 26 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1952 | 25 | — |
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 Hjørdis mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hjørdis?
- A machine transcription gives /jœrd̥is/ (IPA) for Danish.
- Is Hjørdis a male or female name?
- Hjørdis is a female 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 Hjørdis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 371 people named Hjørdis in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hjørdis.
- How common is the name Hjørdis?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 354 people named Hjørdis, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Hjørdis compared with other names?
- In Faroe Islands, Hjørdis is the 103rd most common given name of 194 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hjørdis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hj%C3%B8rdisThe 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, “Hjørdis” — the 103rd most common given name in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.