Kvåle
surname · Latin script
Kvåle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Kvale, from the dative singular of Old Norse hvdll ‘knoll’.
- NONorway1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
- USUnited States1 in 887K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,698 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kvale in US United States, CA Canada.
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)
habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Kvale, from the dative singular of Old Norse hvdll ‘knoll’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kvåle 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #779 | 1,698 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.7K | Kvåle | 31 |
| US United States | — | 375 | 1 in 887K | 412 | Kvale | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | Kvåle | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | — | Kvale | 3 |
1,698 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Sigurd Kvåleb. 1902NONorwegian writer (1902-1962)
- Ivar Kvåleb. 1947NONorwegian illustrator, cartoonist and musician (1947-2011)
- Atle Kvåleb. 1951NONorwegian politician
- Frøydis Kvåleb. 1971NONorwegian author
- Reidar Kvåleb. 1974NOresearcher
- Daniel Kvåleb. 1980NONorwegian association football player
- Hans Jørgen Kvåleb. 1989NONorwegian ski orienteer
- Kevin Kvåleb. 1991NONorwegian musician
- Barbro Kvåleb. 1992NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Fredrik Kvåle DørumNOTelevision producer from Norway
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Kvåle mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Kvale, from the dative singular of Old Norse hvdll ‘knoll’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kvåle have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Kvåle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kvåle.
- Where is Kvåle most common?
- Kvåle is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kvåle?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,698 people named Kvåle, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Kvåle compared with other names?
- In Norway, Kvåle is the 779th most common surname of 90,139 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, “Kvåle” — the 779th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.