Mikkelsen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Mikkel (see Michael)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/miɡ̊əlsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mikkelsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 268(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 656
- USUnited States1 in 155K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 268 (inferred from the name graph)
21,919 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
patronymic from the personal name Mikkel (see Michael).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mikkelsen 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 | #27 | 21,919 | 1 in 268 | 22K | Mikkelsen | 185 |
| NO Norway | #80 | 8,340 | 1 in 656 | 8.3K | Mikkelsen | 87 |
| US United States | — | 2,150 | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Mikkelsen | 219 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Mikkelsen | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 679 | 1 in 15K | 679 | Mikkelsen | 45 |
| GL Greenland | — | 58 | 1 in 993 | 58 | — | 3 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #113 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Mikkelsen | 11 |
21,919 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)
Mikkelsen 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)
Altered spelling of Mikkelsen.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Caroline Mikkelsenb. 1906NODanish-Norwegian explorer (1906-1998)
- Vern Mikkelsenb. 1928USAmerican basketball player (1928–2013)
- Peter Mikkelsenb. 1960DKDanish football referee (1960-2019)
- Lars Dittmann Mikkelsenb. 1964DKDanish actor (born 1964)
- Mads Dittmann Mikkelsenb. 1965DKDanish actor (born 1965)
- Brian Mikkelsenb. 1966DKDanish politician
- Henriette Mikkelsenb. 1980DKDanish handball player
- Miss Fameb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican drag queen
- Tobias Mikkelsenb. 1986DKDanish footballer
- Andreas Mikkelsenb. 1989NOWorld Rally Championship driver
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 25 sources across 14 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 Mikkelsen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Mikkel (see Michael). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mikkelsen?
- A machine transcription gives /miɡ̊əlsən/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Mikkelsen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Mikkelsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikkelsen.
- Where is Mikkelsen most common?
- Mikkelsen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 268 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mikkelsen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 21,919 people named Mikkelsen, about 1 in 268 residents.
- How common is Mikkelsen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Mikkelsen is the 27th 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/mikkelsenThe 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, “Mikkelsen” — the 27th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.