Gisladottir
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gisladottir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. In Iceland it is the 67th most common surname.
- ISIceland≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 67K
- SESweden1 in 378K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
82 people
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gísladóttir in IS Iceland.
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.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gisladottir 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 | — | 82 | 1 in 67K | 82 | Gisladottir | 9 |
| IS Iceland | #67 | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 3 | Gísladóttir | 60 |
| SE Sweden | — | 27 | 1 in 378K | 27 | Gisladottir | 6 |
| US United States | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 19M | listed | Gisladottir | 33 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | Gisladottir | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Gisladottir | 3 |
82 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttirb. 1954ISIcelandic politician
- Hallbera Guðný Gísladóttirb. 1986ISassociation 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 82 | #18,219 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,257 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #48,183 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Gisladottir have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 82 people named Gisladottir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gisladottir.
- How common is the name Gisladottir?
- In Norway, the national register counted 82 people named Gisladottir, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Gisladottir compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Gisladottir is the 67th most common surname of 9,400 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gisladottirThe 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, “Gisladottir” — the 67th most common surname in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.