Jorun
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, a less common spelling of Jorunn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃʊrʊŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jorun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 40K
- DKDenmark1 in 159K
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
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,385 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, a less common spelling of Jorunn
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jorun 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.
2,385 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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 PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Jorun is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Jorun är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av Jor- ’vildsvins(hjälm)’ och -unn ’älska’. Det förekommer på runinskrifter i östra Sverige. I Norge har det ända sedan medel tiden varit vanligt och finns där i många dialektala former.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Jórunn skáldmærb. 850not in their usual nameNorse poet
- Jorunn Kirkenærb. 1926NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian dancer (1926-2021)
- Jorun Askersrud Nygaardb. 1929NONorwegian cross-country skier, sprinter and hurdler (athletics) and speed skater
- Jorunn Hareideb. 1940NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian literary historian
- Jorunn Ringstadb. 1943NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician (1943-2018)
- Jorunn Kjellsbyb. 1944NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian actress
- Jorun Solheimb. 1944NOanthropologist
- Jorunn Jacobsen Buckleyb. 1944NOnot in their usual namehistorian of religion
- Jorun Thørringb. 1955NONorwegian writer
- Jorun Stiansenb. 1984NONorwegian singer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Jorun mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, a less common spelling of Jorunn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jorun?
- In the etymology graph, Jorunn is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jorun?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʊrʊŋ/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Jorun a male or female name?
- Jorun is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jorun have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Jorun, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jorun.
- Where is Jorun most common?
- Jorun is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jorun?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,385 people named Jorun in 2025, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Jorun compared with other names?
- In Norway, Jorun is the 600th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jorun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jorunThe 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, “Jorun” — the 600th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.