Myrdal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A locality in Aurland municipality, Vestland county, Norway
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/miɝdəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myrdal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 12K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 119K
- ISIceland≈1 in 259K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
462 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alva, Swedish peace activist (Nobel
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
How Myrdal is read(measured from records)
Myrdal is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English55%
Alva, Swedish peace activist (Nobel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Swedish economist (Nobel 1974)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
1982); Gunnar (her husband).
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A locality in Aurland municipality, Vestland county, Norway.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Myrdal in Norwegian.
- Swedish11%
a surname, politicians Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, their son writer Jan Myrdal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Myrdal 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 | 462 | 1 in 12K | 462 | Myrdal | 10 |
| US United States | 104 | 1 in 3.2M | 104 | Myrdal | 69 |
| SE Sweden | 86 | 1 in 119K | 86 | Myrdal | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 946K | — | Myrdal | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Myrdal | 10 |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Myrdal | 1 |
| IS Iceland | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 259K | listed | — | — |
462 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Gunnar Myrdalb. 1898SESwedish economist (1898–1987)
- Alva Myrdalb. 1902SESwedish sociologist and politician (1902-1986)
- Jan Myrdalb. 1927SESwedish writer (1927–2020)
- Rosemarie Myrdalb. 1929USAmerican politician
- Arne Myrdalb. 1935NONorwegian anti-immigration politician (1935-2007)
- Janken Myrdalb. 1949SEProfessor and researcher at Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University
- Eva Myrdalb. 1956SESwedish archaeologist
- Andrea Myrdalb. 1961SESwedish translator
- Janne Myrdalb. 1962NOpolitician
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Myrdal come from?
- Alva, Swedish peace activist (Nobel Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Myrdal?
- A machine transcription gives /miɝdəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Myrdal mean?
- In English, A locality in Aurland municipality, Vestland county, Norway.
- In which country does Myrdal have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 462 people named Myrdal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myrdal.
- Where is Myrdal most common?
- Myrdal is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Myrdal?
- In Norway, the national register counted 462 people named Myrdal, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myrdalThe 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, “Myrdal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.