Saemundur
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: SCB, 2020
Saemundur is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 1.4Kas Sæmundur
- DKDenmark1 in 2Mas Sæmundur
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Saemundur itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
253 named Sæmundur, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Saemundur in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sæmundur in IS Iceland, NO Norway.
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
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)Saemundur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #641 | 253as Sæmundur | 1 in 1.4K | 272 | Sæmundur | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 476K | 9 | Sæmundur | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 11 | Saemundur | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 99M | — | Saemundur | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | 3as Sæmundur | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
253 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Saemundur a male or female name?
- Saemundur is a male 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Saemundur?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 253 people named Sæmundur, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Norway, Sweden, United States and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Saemundur most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saemundur is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though Iceland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saemundur?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8 people named Saemundur, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Saemundur compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Saemundur is the 641st most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saemundur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saemundurThe 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, “Saemundur” — ranked 133rd in Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.