Laursen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from Laur, a short form of Lawrence
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laursn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laursen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 337(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 185K
- NONorway1 in 12K
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
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 337 (inferred from the name graph)
17,434 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from Laur, a short form of Lawrence.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laursen 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 | #34 | 17,434 | 1 in 337 | 17K | Laursen | 162 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Laursen | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,798 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Laursen | 190 |
| NO Norway | — | 458 | 1 in 12K | 458 | Laursen | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 368 | 1 in 28K | 368 | Laursen | 43 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Laursen | 32 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Laursen | 11 |
17,434 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Laursen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, -sen-Form, wohl patronymisch zu Laurentius; 17 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Jens Peter Laursenb. 1888DKDanish gymnast (1888–1967)
- Valdemar Laursenb. 1900DKDanish footballer (1900-1989)
- Per Kærsgaard Laursenb. 1955DKDanish cyclist, born 1955
- Jacob Laursenb. 1971DKDanish footballer
- Jeppe Beck Laursenb. 1972NONorwegian actor
- Ulrik Laursenb. 1976DKDanish footballer
- Martin Laursenb. 1977DKDanish footballer
- Jeppe Laursenb. 1977Danish singer-songwriter and producer
- Jacob Barrett Laursenb. 1994DKDanish footballer
- Nikolai Laursenb. 1998DKDanish association football 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 28 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Laursen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from Laur, a short form of Lawrence. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laursen?
- A machine transcription gives /laursn̩/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Laursen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Laursen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laursen.
- Where is Laursen most common?
- Laursen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 337 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laursen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 17,434 people named Laursen, about 1 in 337 residents.
- How common is Laursen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Laursen is the 34th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laursenThe 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, “Laursen” — the 34th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.