Giske
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ɡɪskə/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Giske is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,536 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Giske 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 | 1,536 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.5K | Giske | 5 |
| US United States | 104 | 1 in 3.2M | 114 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
1,536 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)- Norunn Illevold Giskeb. 1935NONorwegian conductor
- Anders Giskeb. 1959NONorwegian footballer
- Trond Giskeb. 1966NONorwegian politician
- Mari Giskeb. 1968NONorwegian musician
- Ingvil Giskeb. 1970NOfilm producer
- Christian Giskeb. 1975NOprofessor at Karolinska Institutet
- Annemarta Giskeb. 1977NONorwegian journalist
- Bendik Giskeb. 1982NONorwegian saxophonist and performance artist
- Anneli Giskeb. 1985NONorwegian footballer
- Madeleine Giskeb. 1987NOassociation 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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Giske?
- In Norwegian /ɡɪskə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Giske have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Giske, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giske.
- Where is Giske most common?
- Giske is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Giske?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,536 people named Giske, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Giske?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giskeThe 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, “Giske”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.