Eskil

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eskil is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Norway. Recorded meaning: Name of an 11th century Swedish saint, from Old Norse Áskell, ("god") + ("helmet", "cauldron").

Norway (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Name of an 11th century Swedish saint, from Old Norse Áskell, ("god") + ("helmet", "cauldron").

Sources 3

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Eskil, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Eskil counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Eskil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway—9.4K—74
SE Sweden—5.3K—58
FI Finland—947—2
DK Denmark—441—52
NL Netherlands—45—4

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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Eskil is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Austria, Türkiye, Germany

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Eşkil

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Eşkil

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, Afghanistan, Syria

    Also written Eşkil

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Eşkil

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Eşkil

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Eşkil

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Eskil 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.

  • Scandinavian: from an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements áss god, divinity + ketill sacrificial cauldron. Variant: Eskel .

    as a word

  • In Norwegian, a male given name derived from Old Norse Áskell

    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)

100012001400160018002000Saint Eskil, b. 1020Eskil of Lund, b. 1111Eskil Magnusson, b. 1175Marten Eskil Winge, b. 1825Eskil Erlandsson, b. 1957Eskil Suter, b. 1967Eskil Hagen, b. 1970Eskil Vogt, b. 1974Eskil Ervik, b. 1975Eskil Pedersen, b. 1984

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 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Eskil
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3#67,378

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Eskil mean, and where does it come from?
Name of an 11th century Swedish saint, from Old Norse Áskell, ("god") + ("helmet", "cauldron"). Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
In which country does Eskil have the most bearers?
Eskil is most frequently recorded in Norway.

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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, “Eskil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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