Vigdís

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/vɪɣtis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vigdís is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 985(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 745
  • SESweden1 in 50K

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)

5,553 people, 2025

Sources
77 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 745 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

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:

Locally spelled Vigdis in NO Norway, IS Iceland, SE Sweden 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.

Sources 1

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vigdís 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 Vigdís is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#2505,5531 in 98519KVigdis77
IS Iceland—4711 in 745471Vigdis32
PK Pakistan—≈280 est.≈1 in 843K—Vigdis1
GH Ghana—≈230 est.≈1 in 128K—Vigdis3
SE Sweden—2041 in 50K204Vigdis9
DK Denmark—1171 in 50K117Vigdis22

5,553 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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 PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Vigdís is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vigdis

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Vigdis

  • a separate given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Vigdis, Vígdis

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, b. 1930Vigdís Grímsdóttir, b. 1953Vigdís Hauksdóttir, b. 1965Vigdís Gunnarsdóttir, b. 1965Vigdís Sigurðardóttir, b. 1973Vigdís Gudjónsdóttir, b. 1975Vigdís Hrefna Pálsdóttir, b. 1977Vigdís Ásgeirsdóttir, b. 1977

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)

InformalHi Vigdís,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Vigdís
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026471—
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 20232023467#101
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005394#94
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12#32,587
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—11#7,382
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Vigdís?
A machine transcription gives /vɪɣtis/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Vigdís a male or female name?
Vigdís is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Vigdís have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Vigdís, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vigdis.
Where is Vigdís most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vigdís is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 745 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vigdís?
In Norway, the national register counted 5,553 people named Vigdís in 2025, about 1 in 985 residents.
How common is Vigdís compared with other names?
In Norway, Vigdís is the 250th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.

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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 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, “Vigdís” — the 250th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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