Tønnesen
surname · Latin script
/d̥œnəsn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tønnesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 6.7K(measured from records)
- GLGreenland1 in 1.9K
- NONorway1 in 2.9K
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 Tønnesen 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,918 people
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Toennesen in US United States.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tønnesen 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.
1,918 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Ambrosia Tønnesenb. 1859NONorwegian sculptor
- Wenche Tønnesenb. 1946NObadminton player
- Terje Tønnesenb. 1955NONorwegian violinist
- Asbjørn Tønnesenb. 1966NONorwegian illustrator
- Frank Tønnesenb. 1972NONorwegian singer, songwriter, guitarist
- Frank Tønnesenb. 1973NONorwegian association football player
- Kent Tønnesenb. 1991NONorwegian handball player
- Emil Tønnesenb. 1993DKDanish cyclist
- Lucas Tønnesenb. 2000DKDanish actor
- Christina Wiis Tønnesen-FriedmanDKDanish-American mathematician
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.9K | #502 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 871 | #455 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2016 | 37 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2013 | 37 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2015 | 36 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2014 | 36 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2012 | 35 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2011 | 35 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2020 | 33 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2018 | 33 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2017 | 33 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2019 | 32 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tønnesen?
- A machine transcription gives /d̥œnəsn̩/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Tønnesen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Tønnesen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tønnesen.
- Where is Tønnesen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tønnesen is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tønnesen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,918 people named Tønnesen, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Tønnesen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Tønnesen is the 688th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tønnesen?
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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%B8nnesenThe 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, “Tønnesen” — the 688th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.