Jökull

given name · Latin script

Meaning: glacier

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/jœːkʏtl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jökull is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 563(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 309K
  • SESweden1 in 464K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Iceland (measured from records)

623 people, 2026

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 563 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jokull in US United States, GB United Kingdom.

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(measured from records)

glacier

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jökull 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.

Where Jökull is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IS Iceland6231 in 563623—1
SE Sweden221 in 464K22——
DK Denmark191 in 309K19——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——
US United States———Jokull5
GB United Kingdom———Jokull4

623 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jökull is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Icelandic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iceland, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Icelandic, Danish

    Also written Jokull

  • Swedish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Jokull

  • Spanish name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Jokull

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Jőkull, Jokull

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Jökull Jakobsson, b. 1933Jökull Ingason Elísabetarson, b. 1984Brynjar Jökull Guðmundsson, b. 1989

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)

InformalHi Jökull,

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 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Jökull
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026623—
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 20232023525#88
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021)202136#2
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—22#22,875
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—19#4,492
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201714—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201813—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201513—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202012—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201912—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201612—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201411—

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 Jökull mean, and where does it come from?
glacier Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Jökull?
In Iceland, the national register counted 623 people named Jökull in 2026, about 1 in 563 residents.
How do you pronounce Jökull?
A machine transcription gives /jœːkʏtl/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Jökull a male or female name?
Jökull is a male 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 Jökull have the most bearers?
In Iceland, the national register counted about 623 people named Jökull, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Jökull most common?
Jökull is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 563 people carrying it.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B6kull

The 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, “Jökull”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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