Asbjørn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name derived from Old Norse Ásbjǫrn
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/asbjœrn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asbjørn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- NONorway≈1 in 1.4K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
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 Asbjørn 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Asbjoern in 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 male given name derived from Old Norse Ásbjǫrn
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asbjørn 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 | #668 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 18K | Asbjørn | 27 |
| DK Denmark | #293 | 3,251 | 1 in 1.8K | 3.3K | Asbjørn | 65 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Asbjoern | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 712K | — | Asbjørn | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | Asbjørn | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 86K | listed | — | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | 1 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the is-skra-nofn register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)
- Ivar Asbjørn Føllingb. 1888NONorwegian scientist
- Asbjørn Halvorsenb. 1898NONorwegian footballer (1898-1955)
- Asbjørn Andersenb. 1903DKDanish actor and film director (1903-1978)
- Asbjørn Ruudb. 1919NONorwegian ski jumper (1919–1989)
- Asbjørn Hansenb. 1930NONorwegian association football player (1930-2017)
- Asbjørn Jordahlb. 1932NONorwegian politician
- Asbjørn Eideb. 1933NONorwegian jurist and human rights expert
- Asbjørn Sennelsb. 1979DKDanish footballer (1979–2023)
- Asbjørn Kragh Andersenb. 1992DKDanish cyclist, born 1992
- Esbjern jarlnot in their usual nameEarl of Denmark
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)
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18K | #265 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.3K | #165 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1946 | 256 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1947 | 235 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1945 | 230 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1950 | 211 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1948 | 208 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1949 | 199 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1951 | 179 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1952 | 162 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1955 | 146 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1953 | 144 | — |
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
- What does the name Asbjørn mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name derived from Old Norse Ásbjǫrn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Asbjørn?
- A machine transcription gives /asbjœrn/ (IPA) for Danish.
- Is Asbjørn a male or female name?
- Asbjørn is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Asbjørn?
- In the etymology graph, Espen, Esben and Bjarni are forms of the same name in other languages; Bjarne and Ebbe are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Asbjørn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Asbjørn in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asbjørn.
- How common is the name Asbjørn?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 3,251 people named Asbjørn, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Asbjørn compared with other names?
- In Norway, Asbjørn is the 668th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Asbjørn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asbj%C3%B8rnThe 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, “Asbjørn” — the 668th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.