Njål

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/njoːl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Njål is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DKDenmark1 in 235K
  • 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (inferred from the name graph)

≈540 people, est.

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Njal in US United States.

Meaning & origin

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

Sources 1

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Njål 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 Njål is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway≈540 est.≈1 in 10K1.9KNjål34
DK Denmark251 in 235K25——
SE Sweden121 in 850K12Njål3
US United States———Njal2
IT Italy——1——

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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Njål is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Njaal, Njal

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Njal

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Njal

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Njal

  • Turkish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Njal

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Njal

  • Swahili given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Njal

  • Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Njal

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Njáll Þorgeirsson, b. 930Njål Hole, b. 1914Njål Sparbo, b. 1964Njål Ølnes, b. 1965Njål Høstmælingen, b. 1965Njål S. Føsker, b. 1969Njål Foldnes, b. 1970Njål Helge Mjøs, b. 1977Njål Gundersen, b. 1980Njål Kleiven, b. 1994

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)

InformalHei Njål,Hi Njål, (English)

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 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Njål
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.9K#1,110
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)196218—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)200017—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)199617—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)199516—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)199216—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)196916—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)198614—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)197714—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)196813—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)196613—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)196013—

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 Njål?
A machine transcription gives /njoːl/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
Is Njål a male or female name?
Njål 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.
What are other forms of the name Njål?
In the etymology graph, Niall is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Njål have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 535 people named Njål in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled njål.
How common is the name Njål?
In Denmark, the national register counted 25 people named Njål, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Njål”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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