Tollefsen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtɑɫɪfsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tollefsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 830K
- SESweden1 in 128K
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
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,406 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Tollefsen 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 | #189 | 4,406 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.4K | Tollefsen | 88 |
| US United States | — | 401 | 1 in 830K | 409 | Tollefsen | 109 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Tollefsen | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 80 | 1 in 128K | 80 | Tollefsen | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 555K | — | Tollefsen | 13 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Tollefsen | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 551K | — | Tollefsen | 4 |
4,406 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 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tollef Tollefsenb. 1885NONorwegian rower (1885–1963)
- Gunnerius Tollefsenb. 1888NONorwegian missionary
- Astrid Tollefsenb. 1897NONorwegian lyricist (1897–1973)
- Toralf Tollefsenb. 1914NONorwegian musician (1914–1994)
- Torstein Tollefsenb. 1953NONorwegian university teacher
- Ivar Tollefsenb. 1961NONorwegian entrepreneur
- Jesper Tollefsenb. 1971DKDanish football manager (born 1971)
- Ole-Kristian Tollefsenb. 1984NOice hockey player
- Mark Tollefsenb. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Aina TollefsenSEAssociate professor at Department of Geography, Umeå University
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 18 sources across 10 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 Tollefsen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɑɫɪfsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tollefsen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Tollefsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tollefsen.
- Where is Tollefsen most common?
- Tollefsen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tollefsen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 4,406 people named Tollefsen, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Tollefsen compared with other names?
- In Norway, Tollefsen is the 189th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tollefsenThe 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, “Tollefsen” — the 189th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.