Eriksen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛɹɪksən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eriksen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Norway it is the 11th most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 151(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 412
- SESweden1 in 2.8Kas Ericson
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 Eriksen 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 151 (inferred from the name graph)
82,085 named Erickson, 2010
recorded for this name
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:
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)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eriksen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 82,085as Erickson | 1 in 4.1K | 82K | Eriksen | 196 |
| NO Norway | #11 | 36,324 | 1 in 151 | 36K | Eriksen | 131 |
| CN China | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Eriksen | 7 |
| DK Denmark | #37 | 14,237 | 1 in 412 | 14K | Eriksen | 182 |
| SE Sweden | #712 | 3,613as Ericson | 1 in 2.8K | 3.6K | Eriksen | 47 |
| GL Greenland | — | 88 | 1 in 655 | 88 | — | 9 |
82,085 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling erickson. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)
- Edvard Eriksenb. 1876DKDanish sculptor (1876–1959)
- Erik Eriksenb. 1902DKDanish politician and Prime Minister of Denmark, 1950–1953 (1902–1972)
- Stein Eriksenb. 1927NONorwegian alpine skier (1927–2015)
- Odd Eriksenb. 1955NONorwegian politician (1955–2023)
- John Eriksenb. 1957DKDanish footballer (1957-2002)
- Thomas Hylland Eriksenb. 1962NONorwegian social anthropologist and professor (1962–2024)
- Jens Eriksenb. 1969DKDanish badminton player
- Ine Marie Eriksen Søreideb. 1976NONorwegian politician (Conservative Party)
- Kaj-Erik Eriksenb. 1979CACanadian actor
- Christian Eriksenb. 1992DKDanish 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 40 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Eriksen mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Eriksen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛɹɪksən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Eriksen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 82 thousand people named Erickson, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Eriksen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eriksen is densest in Norway — about 1 in 151 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Eriksen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 36,324 people named Eriksen, about 1 in 151 residents.
- How common is Eriksen compared with other names?
- In Norway, Eriksen is the 11th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eriksen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eriksenThe 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, “Eriksen” — the 11th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.