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)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
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)
Name of an 11th century Swedish saint, from Old Norse Áskell, ("god") + ("helmet", "cauldron").
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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)
- Saint Eskilb. 1020SEAnglo-Saxon Roman Catholic monk, bishop and martyr
- Eskil of Lundb. 1111ITDanish priest
- Eskil Magnussonb. 1175SESwedish politician
- Marten Eskil Wingeb. 1825SESwedish artist (1825–1896)
- Eskil Erlandssonb. 1957SESwedish politician
- Eskil Suterb. 1967CHSuiss motorcycle racer
- Eskil Hagenb. 1970NOsledge hockey player
- Eskil Vogtb. 1974NONorwegian film director and screenwriter
- Eskil Ervikb. 1975NONorwegian speed skater
- Eskil Pedersenb. 1984NONorwegian former politician
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — 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.
What do you want to know about Eskil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eskilThe 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, “Eskil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.