Johanssen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/dʒhænsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Johanssen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Norwegian Johanssen.
- NONorway1 in 14K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
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)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
380 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Norwegian Johanssen
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Johanssen 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 | 380 | 1 in 14K | 380 | Johanssen | 30 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Johanssen | 52 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Johanssen | 11 |
| CL Chile | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | Johanssen | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | Johanssen | 11 |
380 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)- Jan Christian Johanssenb. 1841NONorwegian educationist and politician
- Oluf Johanssenb. 1849NONorwegian politician
- Karl Johanssenb. 1856botanical collector (1856 - 1928)
- Kristen Johanssenb. 1869NONorwegian jurist
- Karl Johanssenb. 1874NONorwegian journalist (1874-1931)
- Steffen Johanssenb. 1939NONorwegian screenwriter
- Terje Johanssenb. 1942NONorwegian poet
- Sven-Olov Johanssenb. 1943SEbadminton player
- Thor Robert Johanssenb. 1958NONorwegian association football player
- Kent Johanssenb. 1970NONorwegian ski jumper
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 380 | #3,842 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #48,707 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #63,457 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Johanssen mean, and where does it come from?
- Norwegian Johanssen Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Johanssen?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒhænsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Johanssen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 380 people named Johanssen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johanssen.
- Where is Johanssen most common?
- Johanssen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Johanssen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 380 people named Johanssen, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johanssenThe 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, “Johanssen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.