Jörgensen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jœʁɡənzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jörgensen 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: From Danish Jørgensen.
- 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 Jörgensen 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 and Jørgensen in DK Denmark, NO Norway, GL Greenland.
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)
- DanishJørgensen(measured from records)
- Jørgen+(inferred from the name graph)via Jørgensen
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Danish Jørgensen.
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jörgensen 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peter Jörgensenb. 1870DKDanish entomologist (1870–1937)
- Arne Jörgensenb. 1883FIFinnish librarian
- Erik Jørgensenb. 1920DKnot in their usual nameDanish middle-distance runner
- Christel Jörgensenb. 1931DEGerman badminton player
- Radu Jörgensenb. 1962RORomanian journalist
- Ulrika Jörgensenb. 1967SESwedish politician
- Geir Hansteen Jörgensenb. 1968SESwedish director
- Håkan Jörgensenb. 1969SESwedish journalist
- Bent Jörgensenb. 1976historian, teacher
- Dorothea Barth Jorgensenb. 1991SESwedish model
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.1K | #492 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #24,770 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Jörgensen mean, and where does it come from?
- From Danish Jørgensen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Jörgensen?
- A machine transcription gives /jœʁɡənzən/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Jörgensen 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 Jörgensen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,731 people named Jörgensen in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Jörgensen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jörgensen is the 10th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jörgensen?
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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%B6rgensenThe 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, “Jörgensen” — the 10th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.