Sörensen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the given name Sören < Severin
/zøːʁənzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sörensen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 78th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 154as Søren(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 722as Sören
- USUnited States1 in 41Kas Soren
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sörensen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #773 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 464 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 named Surendra, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Surendra in IN India, NP Nepal, ID Indonesia and 1 more, Sorensen in US United States, DK Denmark, TC Turks & Caicos Islands and Saren in FI Finland.
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)
patronymic from the given name Sören < Severin
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sörensen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 548 | — | Surendra | 76 |
| DK Denmark | — | 38,087as Søren | 1 in 154 | 38K | Sorensen | 166 |
| SE Sweden | — | 14,135as Sören | 1 in 722 | 14K | Sörensen | 43 |
| US United States | — | 8,135as Soren | 1 in 41K | 28K | Sorensen | 464 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 74K | listed | Surendra | 52 |
| FI Finland | — | 300as Sören | 1 in 19K | 750 | Saren | 7 |
| GY Guyana | #250 | 286as Surendra | 1 in 2.6K | 286 | Surendra | 2 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Sorensen | 1 |
| IN India | #78 | — | — | 416K | Surendra | 236 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Salomon Sörensenb. 1856SESwedish architect (1856-1937)
- Einar Sörensenb. 1875SESwedish fencers (1875–1941)
- Karl Sörensenb. 1900SESwedish architect (1900-1995)
- Emil Sörensenb. 1900DEGerman university teacher (1900-1977)
- Werner Soerensenb. 1923CHnot in their usual namemathematician (1923-2006)
- Dicki Sörensenb. 1940SESwedish fencers
- Anders Sörensenb. 1975SESwedish ice hockey player and coach
- Paul Sörensenb. 1983DEGerman political scientist
- Marcus Sörensenb. 1992SESwedish ice hockey player
- Nick Sörensenb. 1994SEDanish-born Swedish ice hockey player (born 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.5K | #411 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 151 | #9,305 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 44 | #11,918 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 44 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Sörensen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the given name Sören < Severin Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Sörensen?
- A machine transcription gives /zøːʁənzən/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Sörensen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Surendra in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sörensen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 38,087 people named Søren, about 1 in 154 residents.
- How common is Sörensen compared with other names?
- In India, Sörensen is the 78th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B6rensenThe 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, “Sörensen” — the 78th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.