Oskarsdóttir
surname · Latin script
/ɔskar̥stouhtɪr/(machine-generated) Icelandic · model-generated
Oskarsdóttir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Icelandic Óskarsdóttir, a patronymic, from Óskar + -s + dóttir, literally “Oskar's daughter”.
- ISIceland≈1 in 760few records(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 98K
- DKDenmark1 in 235K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 761 (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oskarsdottir in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 1 more and Óskarsdóttir in IS Iceland.
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)Borrowed from Icelandic Óskarsdóttir, a patronymic, from Óskar + -s + dóttir, literally “Oskar's daughter”.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oskarsdóttir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #103 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 761 | 1 | Óskarsdóttir | 38 |
| NO Norway | — | 56 | 1 in 98K | 56 | Oskarsdottir | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 25 | 1 in 235K | 25 | Oskarsdottir | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Oskarsdottir | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 15 | 1 in 680K | 15 | Oskarsdottir | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 2 |
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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oskarsdóttir mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Icelandic Óskarsdóttir, a patronymic, from Óskar + -s + dóttir, literally “Oskar's daughter”. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Oskarsdóttir?
- In Icelandic /ɔskar̥stouhtɪr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Oskarsdóttir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 508 people named Oskarsdóttir in Iceland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled óskarsdóttir.
- How common is the name Oskarsdóttir?
- In Norway, the national register counted 56 people named Oskarsdóttir, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
- How common is Oskarsdóttir compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Oskarsdóttir is the 103rd most common surname of 9,400 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oskarsd%C3%B3ttirThe 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, “Oskarsdóttir” — the 103rd most common surname in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.