Kierkegaard
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kiɐ̯ɡ̊ɡ̊aɑˀd̥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kierkegaard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Danish Kierkegaard.
- DKDenmark1 in 19K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 119K
- NONorway1 in 1.1M
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
313 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Danish Kierkegaard.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kierkegaard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 313 | 1 in 19K | 313 | Kierkegaard | 52 |
| SE Sweden | 86 | 1 in 119K | 86 | Kierkegaard | 17 |
| US United States | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 20M | listed | Kierkegaard | 32 |
| IT Italy | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Kierkegaard | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Kierkegaard | 8 |
| NO Norway | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | 2 |
313 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kierkegaard 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 Croatian, danski filozof i kritičar racionalizma, smatra se začetnikom egzistencijalističke filozofije; individuum kao subjekt filozofskog razmatranja s tezom o kršćanstvu kao religiji individua ( Ili-ili , Strah i drhtanje )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Michael Pedersen Kierkegaardb. 1756DK(1756-1838)
- Peter Kierkegaardb. 1805DKDanish Lutheran pastor (1805-1888)
- Niels Christian Kierkegaardb. 1806DKDanish lithographer and draftsman (1806-1882)
- Søren Kierkegaardb. 1813DKDanish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
- Poul Kierkegaardb. 1908Danish historian
- Christer Kierkegaardb. 1918SESwedish Navy officer
- Peder Kierkegaardb. 1928SESwedish academic (1928–1996)
- Sylvia Kierkegaardb. 1952GBlegal scholar
- Ricardo Kierkegaardb. 1952ARArgentine equestrian
- Sofie Kierkegaardbadminton 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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 313 | #1,483 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 86 | #8,110 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #68,118 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Kierkegaard mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Danish Kierkegaard. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kierkegaard?
- A machine transcription gives /kiɐ̯ɡ̊ɡ̊aɑˀd̥/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Kierkegaard have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 313 people named Kierkegaard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kierkegaard.
- Where is Kierkegaard most common?
- Kierkegaard is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kierkegaard?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 313 people named Kierkegaard, about 1 in 19 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/kierkegaardThe 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, “Kierkegaard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.