Nordin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name formed with norr, nord ‘north’ -I- the common surname suffix -in, derived from Latin -inius ‘descendant of’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nordin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nordin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 944(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.1K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 11K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- 1 in 944 (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
ornamental name formed with norr, nord ‘north’ -I- the common surname suffix -in, derived from Latin -inius ‘descendant of’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nordin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #35 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Nordin | 112 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nordin | 47 |
| SE Sweden | #441 | 10,808 | 1 in 944 | 11K | Nordin | 82 |
| BJ Benin | #543 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Nordin | 4 |
| US United States | — | 2,642 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Nordin | 259 |
| BN Brunei | #45 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Nordin | 10 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nordin 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 Swedish, patronymic from Nord 3.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Hjördis Nordinb. 1932SESwedish artistic gymnast
- Olle Nordinb. 1949SESwedish footballer and manager
- Sten Nordinb. 1956SESwedish politician and civil servant
- Sven Nordinb. 1957NONorwegian actor
- Zainudin Nordinb. 1963SGSingaporean politician
- Tomas Nordinb. 1969SESwedish male curler and coach
- Siiri Nordinb. 1980FIFinnish singer
- Reino Nordinb. 1983FIFinnish actor and musician
- Emma Nordinb. 1991SESwedish ice hockey player
- Arnaud Nordinb. 1998FRFrench 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 42 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #18,248 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Nordin mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name formed with norr, nord ‘north’ -I- the common surname suffix -in, derived from Latin -inius ‘descendant of’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nordin?
- A machine transcription gives /nordin/ (IPA) for Malay.
- In which country does Nordin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Nordin in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nordin.
- Where is Nordin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nordin is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 944 people — even though Malaysia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nordin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10,808 people named Nordin, about 1 in 944 residents.
- How common is Nordin compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Nordin is the 35th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nordinThe 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, “Nordin” — the 35th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.