Sylte
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɪɫt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sylte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,222 people
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Norway
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
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)
Sylte 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 | 1,222 | 1 in 4.5K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 257 | 1 in 1.3M | 271 | Sylte | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
1,222 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Sylte is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, head cheese, brawn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Peder Arne Sylteb. 1954NONorwegian athletics competitor
- Ann Lisa Sylteb. 1958NONorwegian professor (born 1958)
- Ingebrigt Sylteb. 1960NOresearcher
- Olav Sylteb. 1970NONorwegian lawyer
- Tommy Sylteb. 1971NONorwegian association football player
- Håvard Sylteb. 1973NONorwegian radio personality
- Jon Reier Sylteb. 1986NONorwegian musician
- Matthew SylteUSresearcher
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Sylte?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɫt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sylte have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Sylte, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sylte most common?
- Sylte is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sylte?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,222 people named Sylte, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sylte?
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/sylteThe 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, “Sylte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.