Sjofn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sjofn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country: 151 people, counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands in 2026.
- ISIceland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1M
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
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.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
151 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sjöfn in IS Iceland.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sjofn 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 | #839 | 151 | 1 in 2.3K | 151 | Sjöfn | 14 |
| US United States | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 30M | — | Sjofn | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | Sjofn | 4 |
151 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); 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)- Sjöfn Jóhannesdóttirb. 1953ISpriest
- Sjöfn Evertsdóttirb. 1969ISIcelandic actor
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sjofn a male or female name?
- Sjofn is a female 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 Sjofn?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 151 people named Sjofn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sjöfn. After it come United States, Sweden and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sjofn most common?
- Sjofn is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sjofn?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 151 people named Sjofn in 2026, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Sjofn compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Sjofn is the 839th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sjofn?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sjofnThe 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, “Sjofn” — the 839th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.