Asgeir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Norwegian: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Åsgeir
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ɑsɡæɪr/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Asgeir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 435(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 5K
- SESweden1 in 217K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 435 (inferred from the name graph)
1,101 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Åsgeir
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Asgeir is read
(measured from records)Asgeir is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Norwegian45%
a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Åsgeir
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Icelandic16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Asgeir in Icelandic.
- English13%
pers. name, Icelandic
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Asgeir 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.
1,101 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Asgeir Dølpladsb. 1932NONorwegian ski jumper
- Asgeir Brekkeb. 1942NONorwegian physicist and professor
- Asgeir Kleppab. 1955NONorwegian association football player
- Asgeir Mamenb. 1955NONorwegian speed skater
- Asgeir Kvalvikb. 1957NONorwegian author
- Asgeir Helgestadb. 1968NONorwegian photographer
- Asgeir Mickelsonb. 1969NONorwegian musician, artist, photographer and music reviewer
- Asgeir Jonssonb. 1970ISIcelandic economist
- Asgeir Borgemoenb. 1971NONorwegian television presenter, actor, musician
- Asgeir Årdalb. 1983NONorwegian cross-country skier
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Asgeir mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Åsgeir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Asgeir?
- In the etymology graph, Ansgar, Asger and Ansigar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Asgeir?
- It depends on the language: in Norwegian /ɑsɡæɪr/; in Icelandic /asceir/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Asgeir a male or female name?
- Asgeir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Asgeir have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Asgeir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asgeir.
- Where is Asgeir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Asgeir is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 435 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Asgeir?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,101 people named Asgeir in 2025, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Asgeir compared with other names?
- In Norway, Asgeir is the 589th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asgeirThe 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, “Asgeir” — the 589th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.