Töllefsen

Name: Töllefsen: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Töllefsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common

NONorway1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
USUnited States1 in 830K
SESweden1 in 128K

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 (measured from records)
Sources: 109 (measured from records)
: 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Tollefsen

Locally spelled Tollefsen in NO Norway, US United States, SE Sweden and 4 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 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Töllefsen 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 Töllefsen is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
NO Norway	#189	4,406	1 in 1.2K	4.4K	Tollefsen	88
US United States	—	401	1 in 830K	409	Tollefsen	109
GH Ghana	—	≈180 est.	≈1 in 166K	—	Tollefsen	4
SE Sweden	—	80	1 in 128K	80	Tollefsen	11
CA Canada	—	≈68 est.	≈1 in 555K	—	Tollefsen	13
GT Guatemala	—	≈34 est.	≈1 in 501K	—	Tollefsen	1
NL Netherlands	—	≈31 est.	≈1 in 551K	—	Tollefsen	4

4,406 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Töllefsen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Norway, Canada, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Tollefsen, Toellefsen

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Töllefsen under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Töllefsen have the most bearers?: In Norway, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Töllefsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tollefsen.
Where is Töllefsen most common?: Töllefsen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Töllefsen?: In Norway, the national register counted 4,406 people named Töllefsen, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Töllefsen compared with other names?: In Norway, Töllefsen is the 189th most common surname of 90,139 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/t%C3%B6llefsen

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 2026-10-10 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, “Töllefsen” — the 189th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)