Jörgen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Jörgen är ursprungligen en lågtysk form av → Georg
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jœrjɛn̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jörgen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Benin it is the 57th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 370(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 21K
- VEVenezuela1 in 26K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 370 (inferred from the name graph)
27,605 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jorgen in VE Venezuela, NL Netherlands, 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(measured from records)
Jörgen är ursprungligen en lågtysk form av → Georg. I den rikssvenska almanackan 9 juli och i den finlandssvenska 23 april.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jörgen is read(measured from records)
Jörgen is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swedish73%
Jörgen är ursprungligen en lågtysk form av → Georg. I den rikssvenska almanackan 9 juli och i den finlandssvenska 23 april.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- German14%
männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesi sche Nebenform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jörgen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #170 | 27,605 | 1 in 370 | 28K | Jörgen | 89 |
| BJ Benin | #57 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Jörgen | 5 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,092 | 1 in 26K | 1.1K | Jorgen | 14 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Jörgen | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 830 | 1 in 21K | 830 | Jorgen | 49 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Jorgen | 37 |
| EE Estonia | #600 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 156 | Jörgen | 14 |
| IS Iceland | — | 44 | 1 in 8K | 44 | Jörgen | 5 |
27,605 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Anton Jörgen Andersenb. 1845SENorwegian/Swedish composer (1845–1926)
- Christian Gerthsenb. 1894DEnot in their usual nameGerman physicist (1894–1956)
- Jörgen Perssonb. 1936SESwedish cinematographer (born 1936)
- Jörgen Sundelinb. 1945SEsailor
- Jörgen Elofssonb. 1962SESwedish songwriter (1962–)
- Jörgen Lennartssonb. 1965SESwedish footballer and manager
- Jörgen Perssonb. 1966SESwedish table tennis player
- Jörgen Jönssonb. 1972SESwedish ice hockey player
- Jörgen Petterssonb. 1975SESwedish footballer
- Victor Lindelöfb. 1994SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
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 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28K | #158 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 16K | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Jörgen?
- A machine transcription gives /jœrjɛn̪/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- What does the name Jörgen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Jörgen är ursprungligen en lågtysk form av → Georg.
- Is Jörgen a male or female name?
- Jörgen 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jörgen?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Georges are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jörgen have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Jörgen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jörgen.
- Where is Jörgen most common?
- Jörgen is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 370 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jörgen?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 27,605 people named Jörgen, about 1 in 370 residents.
- How common is Jörgen compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Jörgen is the 170th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jörgen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B6rgenThe 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, “Jörgen” — the 170th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.