Akselsen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑːksɛlsn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akselsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 213K
- DKDenmark1 in 3.4Kas Axelsen
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Akselsen 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,848 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Axelsen in US United States.
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 surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akselsen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,848 | 1 in 3K | 1.8K | Akselsen | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 1,733as Axelsen | 1 in 3.4K | 1.7K | — | — |
| US United States | 385as Axelsen | 1 in 864K | 385 | Axelsen | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 48 | 1 in 213K | 48 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6as Axelsen | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
1,848 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Johannes Willy Akselsenb. 1914NONorwegian photographer
- Elias Akselsenb. 1947NONorwegian musician
- Olav Akselsenb. 1965NONorwegian politician (1965–2021)
- Stine Akselsenb. 1974NONorwegian politician
- Tór-Ingar Akselsenb. 1981FOFaroese association football player
- Fredrik Horn Akselsenb. 1982NOdirector and filmmaker
- Veronica Akselsenb. 1986NONorwegian singer
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 Akselsen mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Akselsen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑːksɛlsn̩/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Akselsen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Akselsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akselsen.
- Where is Akselsen most common?
- Akselsen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Akselsen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,848 people named Akselsen, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Akselsen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akselsenThe 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, “Akselsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.