Jórun

given name · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 40K
  • DKDenmark1 in 159K

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)

2,385 people, 2025

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

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 Jorun in NO Norway, SE Sweden, DK Denmark and 2 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 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jórun 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 Jórun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#6002,3851 in 2.3K7.4KJorun61
SE Sweden—2561 in 40K256Jorun20
US United States—≈40 est.≈1 in 8.2M—Jorun26
DK Denmark—371 in 159K37Jorun18
BE Belgium—≈10 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Jorun4
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——

2,385 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

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

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Germany, Sweden

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jorun

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, India

    Also written Jorun

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Jorun

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)

19201940196019802000Jorunn Kirkenær, b. 1926Jorunn Hareide, b. 1940Jorunn Ringstad, b. 1943Jorunn Kjellsby, b. 1944Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, b. 1944Jorunn Hageler, b. 1946Jorunn Folkvord, b. 1973Jorunn Kvalø, b. 1975Jorunn Hauge, b. 1976Jorunn Hanto-Haugse, b. 1982

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Jórun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15#6,144
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Jórun a male or female name?
Jórun 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 Jórun have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Jórun, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jorun.
Where is Jórun most common?
Jórun is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Jórun?
In Norway, the national register counted 2,385 people named Jórun in 2025, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
How common is Jórun compared with other names?
In Norway, Jórun is the 600th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jórun” — the 600th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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