Jõrgensen
surname · Latin script
Jõrgensen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Danish and Norwegian (Jørgensen) and north German (Jörgensen) surname, patronymic from Jørgen, Jörgen + -sen. Compare George, Jergensen, Jergenson, Jorgenson, Yorgensen.
- SESweden1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K
- CACanada≈1 in 14K
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 Jõrgensen 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
78,057 named Jørgensen
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jorgensen in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 1 more, Jørgensen in DK Denmark, NO Norway, GL Greenland and Jörgensen in SE Sweden.
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)
Danish and Norwegian (Jørgensen) and north German (Jörgensen) surname, patronymic from Jørgen, Jörgen + -sen. Compare George, Jergensen, Jergenson, Jorgenson, Yorgensen.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jõrgensen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #10 | 78,057as Jørgensen | 1 in 75 | 78K | Jørgensen | 155 |
| NO Norway | #36 | 21,490as Jørgensen | 1 in 254 | 21K | Jørgensen | 67 |
| US United States | — | 20,731 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Jorgensen | 431 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Jorgensen | 134 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Jorgensen | 156 |
| SE Sweden | #498 | 2,124 | 1 in 4.8K | 2.1K | Jörgensen | 37 |
| GL Greenland | #11 | 334as Jørgensen | 1 in 173 | 334 | Jørgensen | 10 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #12 | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Jorgensen | 1 |
78,057 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jõrgensen mean, and where does it come from?
- Danish and Norwegian (Jørgensen) and north German (Jörgensen) surname, patronymic from Jørgen, Jörgen + -sen. Compare George, Jergensen, Jergenson, Jorgenson, Yorgensen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Jõrgensen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 78 thousand people named Jørgensen, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jõrgensen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,731 people named Jõrgensen in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Jõrgensen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jõrgensen is the 10th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B5rgensenThe 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, “Jõrgensen” — the 10th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.