Bjørnstad
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bjørnstad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 901(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 117K
- GHGhana≈1 in 302K
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 Bjørnstad 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)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 901 (inferred from the name graph)
6,070 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bjoernstad 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bjørnstad 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.
6,070 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); 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)
- Olav Bjørnstadb. 1882NONorwegian coxswain (1882–1963)
- John Bjørnstadb. 1888NONorwegian coxswain (1888-1968)
- Jørgen Bjørnstadb. 1894NONorwegian gymnast
- Roy Bjørnstadb. 1925NONorwegian actor (1925–2005)
- Hans Bjørnstadb. 1928NONorwegian ski jumper (1928–2007)
- Olaf B. Bjørnstadb. 1931NONorwegian ski jumper (1931-2013)
- Ketil Bjørnstadb. 1952NONorwegian pianist, composer and author
- Helge Bjørnstadb. 1971NONorwegian sportsman
- Tor Halvor Bjørnstadb. 1978NOCross-country skier and biathlete
- Espen Bjørnstadb. 1993NONorwegian Nordic combined 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6.1K | #132 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 50 | #10,614 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #36,544 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Bjørnstad have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Bjørnstad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bjørnstad.
- Where is Bjørnstad most common?
- Bjørnstad is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 901 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bjørnstad?
- In Norway, the national register counted 6,070 people named Bjørnstad, about 1 in 901 residents.
- How common is Bjørnstad compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bjørnstad is the 955th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bjørnstad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bj%C3%B8rnstadThe 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, “Bjørnstad” — the 955th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.