Trolle
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʁɔl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trolle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 552K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 8.6K
- SESweden1 in 43K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
682 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trolle 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.
682 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Trolle is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Troll
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of trollar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Estar en forma, fuerte. Trolle ederrean dago gure bei gorrie " Izeta BHizt2. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Eric Trolleb. 1460SERegent of Sweden (1460-1530)
- Gustav Trolleb. 1488SESwedish noble (1488-1535)
- Herluf Trolleb. 1516SEDanish admiral
- Mette Trolleb. 1637Danish poet
- Nils Trolleb. 1859SEpolitician and Member of the parliament of Sweden (1859-1930)
- Eric Trolleb. 1863SESwedish diplomat, civil servant, and politician (1863-1934)
- Orvar Trolleb. 1900SEswimmer (1900–1971)
- Hans-Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeisterb. 1923SESwedish count and estate owner
- Helena Kallenbäckb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Beata Eriksdotter Trolle, Heiress of Faanoe- 13 Apr 1591
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 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 682 | #606 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 236 | #3,629 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 124 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 74 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 46 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Trolle?
- A machine transcription gives /tʁɔl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Trolle have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 682 people named Trolle, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Trolle most common?
- Trolle is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Trolle?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 682 people named Trolle, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Trolle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trolleThe 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, “Trolle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.