Kolbrun
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʰɔlprʏn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolbrun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 327(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 309K
- SESweden1 in 638K
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)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 327 (inferred from the name graph)
1,074 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolbrun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 1,074 | 1 in 327 | 1.1K | Kolbrun | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Kolbrun | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Kolbrun | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | Kolbrun | 1 |
1,074 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026, counting the spelling kolbrún. 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); Hagstofa — population register names 2023; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kolbrún Ólafsdóttirb. 1933ISIcelandic swimmer
- Kolbrún Halldórsdóttirb. 1955ISIcelandic politician
- Anna Kolbrún Árnadóttirb. 1970ISIcelandic politician (1970–2023)
- Brynja Pétursdóttirb. 1977ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic badminton player
- Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttirb. 1982ISIcelandic swimmer
- Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttirb. 1987ISIcelandic politician
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #5,099 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #34,075 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 10 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2009 | 1 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Kolbrun?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰɔlprʏn/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Kolbrun a male or female name?
- Kolbrun 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 Kolbrun have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kolbrun, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kolbrun.
- Where is Kolbrun most common?
- Kolbrun is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 327 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kolbrun?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1,074 people named Kolbrun in 2026, about 1 in 327 residents.
What do you want to know about Kolbrun?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolbrunThe 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, “Kolbrun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.