Laufey
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lœiːvei/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laufey is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ISIceland
- SESweden
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Laufey Valdimarsdóttirb. 1890ISIcelandic women's rights activist and lawyer (1890–1945)
- Laufey Ólafsdóttirb. 1981ISIcelandic footballer
- Laufey Johannsdottirb. 1982ISIcelandic association football player
- Laufey Lín Jónsdóttirb. 1999ISIcelandic singer-songwriter (born 1999)
- Laufey T. Amundadottirb. 2000ISIcelandic cell biologist and geneticist
- Laufey Tryggvadottirb. 2000CAresearcher
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 577 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 561 | #79 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 539 | #69 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #13,208 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #5,280 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #28,922 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021) | 2021 | 11 | #38 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2022 | 1 | #2,258 |
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 1 | — |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
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
- Is Laufey a male or female name?
- Laufey 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.
- How do you pronounce Laufey?
- A machine transcription gives /lœiːvei/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- In which country does Laufey have the most bearers?
- Laufey is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Laufey?
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/laufeyThe 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, “Laufey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.