Joern
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɔɐn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joern is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.1Kas Jorn(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.4Kas Jörn
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 34K
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 Joern 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 named Jörn, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jorn in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, NO Norway and 1 more and Jörn in DE Germany, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joern 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #409 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Jörn | 153 |
| NL Netherlands | #626 | 4,219as Jorn | 1 in 4.1K | 4.2K | Jorn | 92 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Jorn | 52 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 18 | Jorn | 37 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Jorn | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 443as Jörn | 1 in 23K | 443 | Jörn | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 11 | Joern | 26 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Joern Martin Beckerb. 1971DEGerman lyricist and poet (*1971, Neubrandenburg)
- Joern Fischerb. 1976AUresearcher
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Joern?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɔɐn/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Joern a male or female name?
- Joern 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.
- In which country does Joern have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Jörn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Joern?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,219 people named Jorn, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Joern compared with other names?
- In Germany, Joern is the 409th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Joern?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joernThe 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, “Joern” — the 409th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.