Kjos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, especially in southeastern Norway, named Kjos, from Old Norse kjoss ‘narrow bay or inlet’, ‘narrow valley’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkjɔs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kjos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 399K
- SESweden1 in 850K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,100 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of several farmsteads, especially in southeastern Norway, named Kjos, from Old Norse kjoss ‘narrow bay or inlet’, ‘narrow valley’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kjos 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 | 1,100 | 1 in 5K | 1.1K | Kjos | 22 |
| US United States | 833 | 1 in 399K | 833 | Kjos | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 12 | 1 in 850K | 12 | Kjos | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
1,100 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Kjos 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, a bay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Kjeld Kjosb. 1905NONorwegian association football player (1905-1983)
- Sigmund Kjosb. 1931NONorwegian politician and economist
- Bjørn Kjosb. 1946NONorwegian aviator, lawyer and businessman
- Kari Kjønaas Kjosb. 1962NONorwegian politician
- Jens Petter Kjosb. 1971NONorwegian powerlifter
- Morten Kjosb. 1983NOresearcher
- Caroline Hagen Kjosb. 1984NONorwegian business executive, heiress and billionaire
- Elin Kjosb. 1988SESwedish swimmer
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Kjos mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several farmsteads, especially in southeastern Norway, named Kjos, from Old Norse kjoss ‘narrow bay or inlet’, ‘narrow valley’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kjos?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkjɔs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kjos have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kjos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kjos.
- Where is Kjos most common?
- Kjos is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kjos?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,100 people named Kjos, about 1 in 5.0 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/kjosThe 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, “Kjos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.