Bjorn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: like bear; see Bernard
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bjorn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 164(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.1K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 164 (inferred from the name graph)
62,354 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Björn in DE Germany, BJ Benin.
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)
like bear; see Bernard
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bjorn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #331 | 62,354 | 1 in 164 | 62K | Bjorn | 75 |
| DE Germany | #269 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Björn | 176 |
| BJ Benin | #172 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Björn | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | #234 | 5,676 | 1 in 3K | 5.7K | Bjorn | 110 |
| BE Belgium | #325 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 4 | Bjorn | 119 |
| NO Norway | #792 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 74 | Bjorn | 62 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1,698 | 1 in 207 | 1.8K | — | 1 |
62,354 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling björn. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bjorn 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.
Norse Like Bear See Bernard
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Cebuano, a male given name from Danish [in turn from Old Norse] or from Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Björn Engholmb. 1939DEGerman politician
- Björn Nordqvistb. 1942SESwedish footballer
- Björn Ulvaeusb. 1945SESwedish musician; member of ABBA
- Björn Anderssonb. 1951SESwedish footballer (born 1951)
- Björn Andrésenb. 1955SESwedish actor and musician (1955–2025)
- Björn Borgb. 1956SESwedish tennis player (born 1956)
- Björn Kuipersb. 1973NLDutch football referee
- Björn Hlynur Haraldssonb. 1974ISIcelandic actor
- Björn Gustafssonb. 1986SESwedish actor and comedian
- Björn Engelsb. 1994BEBelgian association football player
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 66 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 74 | #9,295 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #17,369 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 17 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Bjorn mean, and where does it come from?
- like bear; see Bernard Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Bjorn a male or female name?
- Bjorn 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.
- In which country does Bjorn have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Bjorn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bjorn.
- Where is Bjorn most common?
- Bjorn is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 164 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bjorn?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 62,354 people named Bjorn, about 1 in 164 residents.
- How common is Bjorn compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Bjorn is the 331st most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bjorn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bjornThe 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, “Bjorn” — the 331st most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.