Tønnessen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Statistics Greenland, 2021
/tøːnːɛsːn̩/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Tønnessen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- GLGreenland1 in 1.8K
- DKDenmark1 in 309K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,010 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tønnessen 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.
4,010 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); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Johan Nicolay Tønnessenb. 1901NONorwegian historian and schoolteacher
- Herman Tønnessenb. 1918NONorwegian philosopher (1918–2001)
- Liv Kari Bondevik Tønnessenb. 1936NONorwegian author
- Terje Tønnessenb. 1949NONorwegian writer and priest
- Aud Valborg Tønnessenb. 1964NONorwegian historian
- Tyra Bondevik Tønnessenb. 1967NONorwegian theatre director and playwright
- Rune Tønnessenb. 1967NONorwegian pop musician
- Espen Tønnessenb. 1970NONorwegian writer
- Anne Tønnessenb. 1974NONorwegian footballer
- Truls Hallberg Tønnessenb. 1975NONorwegian author
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4K | #213 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2011 | 34 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2021 | 32 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2012 | 32 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2020 | 31 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2019 | 31 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2015 | 31 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2014 | 31 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2013 | 31 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2018 | 30 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2016 | 30 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2017 | 29 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Tønnessen?
- In Norwegian /tøːnːɛsːn̩/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Tønnessen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Tønnessen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tønnessen.
- Where is Tønnessen most common?
- Tønnessen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tønnessen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 4,010 people named Tønnessen, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tønnessen?
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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%B8nnessenThe 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, “Tønnessen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.