Jorunn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Old Norse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃʊrʉnː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jorunn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 651(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 2.4K
- SESweden1 in 32K
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
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 651 (inferred from the name graph)
8,400 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jórunn in IS Iceland.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name from Old Norse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jorunn 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.
8,400 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); 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)
- Jorunn Kirkenærb. 1926NONorwegian dancer (1926-2021)
- Jorunn Hareideb. 1940NONorwegian literary historian
- Jorunn Ringstadb. 1943NONorwegian politician (1943-2018)
- Jorunn Kjellsbyb. 1944NONorwegian actress
- Jorunn Jacobsen Buckleyb. 1944NOhistorian of religion
- Jorunn Hagelerb. 1946NONorwegian politician
- Jorunn Folkvordb. 1973NONorwegian politician (Red party), teacher and trade unionist
- Jorunn Kvaløb. 1975NONorwegian bicycle racer
- Jorunn Haugeb. 1976NONorwegian singer
- Jorunn Hanto-Haugseb. 1982NONorwegian fruit farmer and artist
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 18 sources across 10 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
- How do you pronounce Jorunn?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʊrʉnː/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- What does the name Jorunn mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jorunn?
- In the etymology graph, Jorun is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Jorunn a male or female name?
- Jorunn 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 Jorunn have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Jorunn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jorunn.
- Where is Jorunn most common?
- Jorunn is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 651 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jorunn?
- In Norway, the national register counted 8,400 people named Jorunn in 2025, about 1 in 651 residents.
- How common is Jorunn compared with other names?
- In Norway, Jorunn is the 180th most common given name of 25,788 given names 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/jorunnThe 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, “Jorunn” — the 180th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.