Pálsson
surname · Latin script
Pálsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.8M(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 2K
- ISIceland≈1 in 5.3K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,209 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Palsson in SE Sweden, US United States, IS Iceland and 3 more.
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 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pálsson 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.
5,209 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling pålsson. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- Ólafur Pálssonb. 1814Danish philologist
- Gestur Pálssonb. 1852ISIcelandic writer (1852-1891)
- Magnús Pálssonb. 1929ISIcelandic textile artist (born 1929)
- Gísli Pálssonb. 1949ISIcelandic scholar
- Páll Ragnar Pálssonb. 1977ISIcelandic composer
- Victor Pálssonb. 1991ISIcelandic footballer
- Haukur Pálssonb. 1992ISIcelandic basketball player (born 1992)
- Emil Pálssonb. 1993ISIcelandic association football player
- Kristinn Pálssonb. 1997ISIcelandic basketball player (born 1997)
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 53 | #10,025 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,792 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Pálsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Pálsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palsson.
- Where is Pálsson most common?
- Pálsson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pálsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 5,209 people named Pálsson, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Pálsson compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Pálsson is the 126th most common surname of 9,400 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pálsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1lssonThe 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, “Pálsson” — the 126th most common surname in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.