Joensen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/joənsn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joensen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. In Faroe Islands it is the most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- FOFaroe Islands≈1 in 3K
- NONorway1 in 19K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,187 people
Highest-authority source
Faroe Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joensen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #445 | 1,187 | 1 in 4.9K | 1.2K | Joensen | 101 |
| NO Norway | — | 284 | 1 in 19K | 284 | Joensen | 20 |
| US United States | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | listed | Joensen | 48 |
| SE Sweden | — | 31 | 1 in 329K | 31 | Joensen | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Joensen | 18 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #1 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Joensen | 28 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 97K | listed | Joensen | 16 |
1,187 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Poul F. Joensenb. 1898FOwriter and poet
- Sigrið av Skarðib. 1908FOnot in their usual nameDanish opinion journalist and teacher (1908-1975)
- Sigurð Joensenb. 1911FOFaroese author, lawyer, politician
- Fridtjof Joensenb. 1920FODanish sculptor
- Bodil Joensenb. 1944DKDanish pornographic actress (1944-1985)
- Edmund Joensenb. 1944FOPrime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- Heri Joensenb. 1973FOFaroese singer and guitarist
- Páll Mohr Joensenb. 1986FODanish footballer
- Pál Joensenb. 1990FOFaroese swimmer
- René Joensenb. 1993FOFaroese footballer
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 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.2K | #332 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 284 | #5,442 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31 | #18,308 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Joensen?
- A machine transcription gives /joənsn̩/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Joensen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Joensen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joensen.
- How common is the name Joensen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,187 people named Joensen, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Joensen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Joensen is the 445th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Joensen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joensenThe 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, “Joensen” — the 445th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.