Engebretsen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛŋɡɪbɹɪtsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Engebretsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 134K
- DKDenmark1 in 279K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,252 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Engebretsen 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 | 5,252 | 1 in 1K | 5.3K | Engebretsen | 6 |
| US United States | 262 | 1 in 1.3M | 526 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 76 | 1 in 134K | 76 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | — | — |
5,252 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Kaare Engebretsenb. 1893NONorwegian association football player (1893-1960)
- Olav Engebretsenb. 1905NONorwegian film editor (1905-1988)
- Paul Engebretsenb. 1910USAmerican football player (1910–1979)
- Erik Engebretsenb. 1940NONorwegian businessman
- Kjell Engebretsenb. 1941NONorwegian politician
- Per Engebretsenb. 1946NONorwegian civil servant (1946-2014)
- Geir Engebretsenb. 1952NONorwegian civil servant
- Rita Engebretsenb. 1957NONorwegian singer and musician
- Eivind Engebretsenb. 1974NONorwegian professor of philosophy and health
- Mathias Engebretsenb. 1993NONorwegian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Engebretsen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛŋɡɪbɹɪtsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Engebretsen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Engebretsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled engebretsen.
- Where is Engebretsen most common?
- Engebretsen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Engebretsen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 5,252 people named Engebretsen, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Engebretsen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/engebretsenThe 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, “Engebretsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.