Jørgensen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a common surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jɶɐ̯wənˀsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jørgensen 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.
- DKDenmark1 in 75(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 254
- SESweden1 in 4.8Kas Jörgensen
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 Jørgensen 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 75 (inferred from the name graph)
78,057 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
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 Jorgensen in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 1 more 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)
a common surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jørgensen 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 | 78,057 | 1 in 75 | 78K | Jørgensen | 155 |
| NO Norway | #36 | 21,490 | 1 in 254 | 21K | Jørgensen | 67 |
| US United States | — | 20,731as Jorgensen | 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 | 2,124as Jörgensen | 1 in 4.8K | 2.1K | Jörgensen | 37 |
| GL Greenland | #11 | 334 | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jørgensen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johannes Jørgensenb. 1866DKDanish writer (1866–1956)
- Pauli Jørgensenb. 1905DKDanish footballer (1905-1993)
- Anker Jørgensenb. 1922DKDanish politician (1922–2016)
- Sisse Graum Jørgensenb. 1972DKDanish film producer
- Martin Jørgensenb. 1975DKDanish footballer
- Dan Jørgensenb. 1975DKDanish politician
- Mathias Jørgensenb. 1990GMDanish association football player (born 1990)
- Nicolai Jørgensenb. 1991DKDanish association football player (1991-)
- Emma Jørgensenb. 1996DKDanish canoeist
- Filip Jörgensenb. 2002SEDanish 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 78K | #10 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 21K | #22 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2013 | 363 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2012 | 360 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2011 | 356 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2014 | 348 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2015 | 342 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2018 | 335 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2021 | 334 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2020 | 328 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2019 | 328 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2016 | 321 | — |
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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Jørgensen mean, and where does it come from?
- a common surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jørgensen?
- A machine transcription gives /jɶɐ̯wənˀsən/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Jørgensen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 78 thousand people named Jørgensen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jørgensen.
- Where is Jørgensen most common?
- Jørgensen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 75 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jørgensen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 78,057 people named Jørgensen, about 1 in 75 residents.
- How common is Jørgensen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jørgensen is the 10th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jørgensen?
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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%B8rgensenThe 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, “Jørgensen” — the 10th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.