Isaksson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɪs̪aks̪ɔn̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Isaksson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 849(measured from records)
- AXÅland Islands1 in 359
- FIFinland1 in 2.3K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 359 (inferred from the name graph)
12,016 people
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isaksson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #50 | 12,016 | 1 in 849 | 12K | Isaksson | 128 |
| BJ Benin | #376 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Isaksson | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,414 | 1 in 2.3K | 2.4K | Isaksson | 34 |
| NO Norway | — | 206 | 1 in 27K | 206 | Isaksson | 19 |
| US United States | — | 133 | 1 in 2.5M | 136 | Isaksson | 84 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 73 | 1 in 359 | 73 | — | 2 |
12,016 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames). 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)
- Ulla Isakssonb. 1916SESwedish writer (1916-2000)
- Martin Isakssonb. 1921FIGovernor of Aland Islands (1921–2001)
- Anders Isakssonb. 1943SESwedish historian (1943-2009)
- Preben Isakssonb. 1943DKDanish cyclist (1943-2008)
- Kjell Isakssonb. 1948SESwedish pole vaulter
- Eva Isakssonb. 1953FIFinnish librarian and activist
- Madeleine Isakssonb. 1956SESwedish composer
- Elisabeth Isakssonb. 1961SESwedish glaciologist and geologist
- Patrik Isakssonb. 1972SESwedish singer, songwriter and musician
- Andreas Isakssonb. 1981SESwedish 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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12K | #61 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.4K | #830 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 839 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 206 | #7,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 136 | #130,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 133 | #128,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 105 | #144,908 |
| AX Åland Islands | ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) | 2025 | 73 | #49 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Isaksson 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 Isaksson?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪs̪aks̪ɔn̪/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Isaksson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Isaksson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isaksson.
- Where is Isaksson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Isaksson is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 359 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Isaksson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 12,016 people named Isaksson, about 1 in 849 residents.
- How common is Isaksson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Isaksson is the 50th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isakssonThe 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, “Isaksson” — the 50th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.