Asgeir
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asgeir is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Icelandic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Åsgeir.
- ISIceland1 in 342◐
- NONorway1 in 5K
- SESweden1 in 217K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.2K ●
- Sources
- 56 ●
- 1 in 342 ◐
across 6 countries
1.1K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Åsgeir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #600 | 1,101 | 707 rec. | 1 in 5K | 4.1K | Asgeir | 56 |
| IS Iceland | #160 | 1,026△ | 137 rec. | 1 in 342 | 1K | Asgeir | 54 |
| US United States | — | 209 | 181 rec. | — | — | Asgeir | 48 |
| SE Sweden | — | 47△ | 14 rec. | 1 in 217K | 47 | Asgeir | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 43 | 18 rec. | — | — | Asgeir | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 14 | 14 rec. | 1 in 419K | 14 | Asgeir | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 9 | 7 rec. | — | — | Asgeir | 7 |
| GH Ghana | — | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Asgeir | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Asgeir | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 5 | — | 1 in 1.1M | 40 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 5 | 6 rec. | — | — | Asgeir | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
Roughly 1.1K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål4.1K40%
- Icelandic3.8K37%
- Norwegian1.2K12%
- English3503%
- Danish1131%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 4,064 | 40% |
| Icelandic | 3,782 | 37% |
| Norwegian | 1,184 | 12% |
| English | 350 | 3% |
| Danish | 113 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Asgeir 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 English, pers. name, Icelandic
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1946 | 7 |
| 1948 | 11 |
| 1949 | 8 |
| 1950 | 7 |
| 1951 | 9 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 9 |
| 1954 | 18 |
| 1955 | 36 |
| 1956 | 24 |
| 1957 | 27 |
| 1958 | 32 |
| 1959 | 35 |
| 1960 | 29 |
| 1961 | 33 |
| 1962 | 34 |
| 1963 | 30 |
| 1964 | 25 |
| 1965 | 29 |
| 1966 | 22 |
| 1967 | 30 |
| 1968 | 34 |
| 1969 | 37 |
| 1970 | 22 |
| 1971 | 25 |
| 1972 | 21 |
| 1973 | 23 |
| 1974 | 33 |
| 1975 | 22 |
| 1976 | 25 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 30 |
| 1979 | 27 |
| 1980 | 25 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 26 |
| 1983 | 21 |
| 1984 | 18 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 19 |
| 1988 | 16 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 11 |
| 1992 | 18 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 17 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 61 years between 1946–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Asgeir Dølpladsb. 1932NONorwegian ski jumper
- Asgeir Brekkeb. 1942NONorwegian physicist and professor
- Asgeir Kleppab. 1955NONorwegian association football player
- Asgeir Mamenb. 1955NONorwegian speed skater
- Asgeir Kvalvikb. 1957NONorwegian author
- Asgeir Helgestadb. 1968NONorwegian photographer
- Asgeir Mickelsonb. 1969NONorwegian musician, artist, photographer and music reviewer
- Asgeir Jonssonb. 1970ISIcelandic economist
- Asgeir Borgemoenb. 1971NONorwegian television presenter, actor, musician
- Asgeir Årdalb. 1983NONorwegian cross-country skier
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●
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 192 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Asgeir?
- We estimate roughly 2.2 thousand people bear Asgeir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Asgeir have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Asgeir in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled asgeir.
- Where is Asgeir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Asgeir is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 342 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Asgeir compared with other names?
- In Norway, Asgeir is the 600th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Asgeir a male or female name?
- Asgeir 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.
- What does the name Asgeir mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Åsgeir
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Asgeir” — the 600th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.