Jønsson

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Jønsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.

  • DKDenmark1 in 3K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 7.5K
  • SESweden1 in 850K

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 Jønsson 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)

1,967 people

Record sources
52 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joensson in SE Sweden, US United States, BJ Benin and 1 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Jønsson is found

(measured from records)

Jønsson 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 Jønsson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark#3121,9671 in 3K2KJønsson52
BJ Benin#736≈990 est.≈1 in 15K—Joensson1
NO Norway—7301 in 7.5K730Jønsson12
ES Spain—18as Joensson1 in 2.8M18Joensson3
US United States—≈16 est.≈1 in 21MlistedJoensson27
SE Sweden—121 in 850K12Joensson45

1,967 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: 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

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)
FormalKære ,Dear Jønsson, (English)
InformalKære ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Jønsson?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Jønsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jønsson. After it come Benin, Norway, Spain and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Jønsson most common?
Jønsson is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Jønsson?
In Denmark, the national register counted 1,967 people named Jønsson, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
How common is Jønsson compared with other names?
In Denmark, Jønsson is the 312th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Jønsson” — the 312th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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