Sørensen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a common surname originating as a patronymic

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sørensen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 60(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 271
  • GLGreenland1 in 195

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 Sørensen 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.

Denmark (measured from records)

97,587 people

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
139 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 60 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SørensenLatin(measured from records)
โซเรนเซนThai(measured from records)
СоеренсенCyrillic(measured from records)
ΣερενσενGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Soerensen in PY Paraguay, GH Ghana.

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(measured from records)

a common surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sørensen 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 Sørensen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark#897,5871 in 6098KSørensen139
NO Norway#4620,1701 in 27120KSørensen60
CN China—≈720 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Sørensen5
GL Greenland#62951 in 195295Sørensen13
GH Ghana—≈240 est.≈1 in 123K—Soerensen5
SE Sweden—2211 in 46K221Sørensen17
PY Paraguay—≈59 est.≈1 in 121K—Soerensen6

97,587 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)

Sørensen is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sǿrensen

  • Russian surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Sorensen, Sorenson, Соренсен, Сёренсен, Серенсен

48 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sørensen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian, a surname originating as a patronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname auf -sen. In Dänemark sehr häufig; Bildung aus Søren.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, b. 1562S. P. L. Sørensen, b. 1868Inge Sørensen, b. 1924Theodore Sorensen, b. 1928Odd Børre, b. 1939Reidar Sørensen, b. 1956Thomas Sørensen, b. 1976Cathrine Paaske-Sørensen, b. 1978Birgitte Hjort Sørensenová, b. 1982Frederik Sørensen, b. 1992

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 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Sørensen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—98K#8
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—20K#26
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2011362—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2012347—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2014324—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2013324—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2018316—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2019310—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2015304—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2016302—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2021295—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)2020294—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Sørensen mean, and where does it come from?
a common surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Sørensen have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 98 thousand people named Sørensen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sørensen.
Where is Sørensen most common?
Sørensen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 people carrying it.
How common is the name Sørensen?
In Denmark, the national register counted 97,587 people named Sørensen, about 1 in 60 residents.
How common is Sørensen compared with other names?
In Denmark, Sørensen is the 8th most common surname of 88,366 surnames 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, “Sørensen” — the 8th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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