Nordlander

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nordlander is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
  • BJBenin≈1 in 23K
  • FIFinland1 in 119K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

2,330 people

Sources
77 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nordlander 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.

Where Nordlander is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#3742,3301 in 4.4K2.3KNordlander74
BJ Benin—≈550 est.≈1 in 23K—Nordlander2
US United States—1141 in 2.9M128Nordlander77
FI Finland—471 in 119K47—1
NO Norway—421 in 130K42Nordlander7
DK Denmark—361 in 163K36Nordlander14

2,330 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nordlander is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Canada, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nordländer, Nordlaender

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Nils Nordlander, b. 1796Daniel Nordlander, b. 1829Anna Nordlander, b. 1843Axel Nordlander, b. 1879Karin Nordlander, b. 1917Nils Brage Nordlander, b. 1919Bert-Ola Nordlander, b. 1938Inger Nordlander, b. 1938Peter Nordlander, b. 1955Kristina Nordlander, b. 1969

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Nordlander
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.3K#446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020128#136,082
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010114#145,220
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—47#24,060
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—42#29,567
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—36#14,218
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

In which country does Nordlander have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Nordlander, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nordlander.
Where is Nordlander most common?
Nordlander is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nordlander?
In Sweden, the national register counted 2,330 people named Nordlander, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
How common is Nordlander compared with other names?
In Sweden, Nordlander is the 374th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Nordlander” — the 374th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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