Bjorgvin
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bjorgvin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Norway. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script.
- NONorway1 in 190◐
- ISIceland1 in 389
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 43 ●
- 1 in 389 ◐
across 5 countries
579 records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bergen in NO Norway and Bergén in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 6 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 | — | 19,420 | 24 rec. | — | 56 | Bergen | 11 |
| IS Iceland | #101 | 902△ | 96 rec. | 1 in 389 | 902 | Bjorgvin | 38 |
| US United States | — | 524 | 318 rec. | 1 in 635K | 6.1K | Bjorgvin | 43 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18 | 35 rec. | 1 in 567K | 69 | Bergén | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 17△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 345K | 183 | Bjorgvin | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9 | 12 rec. | — | — | Bjorgvin | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2 | — | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | — | 5 rec. | — | 800 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 35 rec. | — | 560 | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | — | 1 rec. | — | 51 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | — | 42 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | 2 rec. | — | 41 | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic2.8K95%
- English562%
- Danish532%
- German131%
- Swedish81%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 2,772 | 95% |
| English | 56 | 2% |
| Danish | 53 | 2% |
| German | 13 | 1% |
| Swedish | 8 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Björgvin Guðmundssonb. 1891ISIcelandic composer
- Björgvin Hólmb. 1934ISIcelandic athletics competitor (1934-1999)
- Björgvin Hermannssonb. 1938ISIcelandic footballer
- Björgvin Björgvinssonb. 1949ISIcelandic handball player
- Bjorgvin Halldorssonb. 1951ISIcelandic singer (1951–2026)
- Björgvin G. Sigurðssonb. 1970ISIcelandic politician
- Björgvin Franz Gíslasonb. 1977ISactor
- Björgvin Björgvinssonb. 1980ISIcelandic alpine skier
- Björgvin Páll Gústavssonb. 1985ISIcelandic handball player
- Hörður Björgvin Magnússonb. 1993ISIcelandic footballer
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●
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bjorgvin?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Bjorgvin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bjorgvin have the most bearers?
- Bjorgvin is most frequently recorded in Norway, where it is most often spelled bergen.
- How common is Bjorgvin compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Bjorgvin is the 101st most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
- Is Bjorgvin a male or female name?
- Bjorgvin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bjorgvinThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Bjorgvin” — the 101st most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.