Bjørnar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʃœrnɑr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bjørnar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Bjarnar, influenced by the word bjørn (“bear”). Cognate with Danish Bjørner.
- NONorway≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 119K
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
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.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 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 Bjoernar in GH Ghana, GB United Kingdom.
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)
From Old Norse Bjarnar, influenced by the word bjørn (“bear”). Cognate with Danish Bjørner.
Sources 2
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bjørnar 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 | #800 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 18K | Bjørnar | 26 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Bjoernar | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18 | 1 in 567K | 18 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | Bjørnar | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 36M | — | Bjoernar | 3 |
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). 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)
- Bjørnar Andresenb. 1945NONorwegian jazz musician (1945–2004)
- Bjørnar Olsenb. 1958NOarchaeologist
- Bjørnar Skjæranb. 1966NONorwegian politician
- Bjørnar Teigenb. 1971NONorwegian actor
- Bjørnar Vestølb. 1974NONorwegian cyclist
- Bjørnar Johannessenb. 1977NONorwegian footballer
- Bjørnar Andersenb. 1978NONorwegian dog musher
- Bjørnar Moxnesb. 1981NONorwegian politician
- Bjørnar Holmvikb. 1985NONorwegian footballer
- Bjørnar Kaldefoss Tveiteb. 1987NONorwegian jazz upright bassist
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18K | #263 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1983 | 126 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1982 | 112 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1984 | 111 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1971 | 111 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1973 | 109 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1988 | 104 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1975 | 99 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1969 | 99 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1965 | 99 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1970 | 97 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1981 | 96 | — |
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 Bjørnar mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Bjarnar, influenced by the word bjørn (“bear”). Cognate with Danish Bjørner. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Bjørnar?
- A machine transcription gives /bʃœrnɑr/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Bjørnar a male or female name?
- Bjørnar 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 Bjørnar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Bjørnar in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bjørnar.
- How common is the name Bjørnar?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 18 people named Bjørnar, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
- How common is Bjørnar compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bjørnar is the 800th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bjørnar?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bj%C3%B8rnarThe 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, “Bjørnar” — the 800th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.