Bjorn

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bjorn is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in English and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: like bear; see Bernard.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 164◐
  • DEGermany1 in 1.5K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 3.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈78K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
253 ●

122K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 129 ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Björn in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, ES Spain and 1 more.

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●

like bear; see Bernard

Sources 1

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Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bjorn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#27383,38376K rec.—2Björn157
SE Sweden#26662,354△3.7K rec.1 in 16462KBjorn76
NL Netherlands#4885,6557.3K rec.1 in 3.1K5.7KBjorn90
BE Belgium#3844,7764.1K rec.—4Bjorn97
US United States—3,75921K rec.1 in 88K3.8KBjorn253
IS Iceland—2,7090 rec.1 in 1292.7K—1
AU Australia—2,1171.9K rec.—3Bjorn101
AT Austria#8051,850371 rec.—395Bjorn41
GB United Kingdom—1,7881.5K rec.—3Bjorn83
FI Finland#9641,733△197 rec.1 in 3.2K3.2KBjorn14
NO Norway—903678 rec.—74Bjorn66
CA Canada—848696 rec.—6Bjorn60

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English33K27%
  • Dutch14K11%
  • German13K11%
  • Western Frisian11K9%
  • Finnish8.8K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English32,58227%
Dutch13,88111%
German13,07111%
Western Frisian10,5789%
Finnish8,8467%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bjorn is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name22K records spelled Bjorn61 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Germany, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, German, Danish

    Also written Bjørn, Bjoern, Björn

  • Spanish given name12K records spelled Bjorn9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Björn, B-Jorn

  • a separate given name2.4K records spelled Bjorn8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Björn, Bjòrn, Bjôrn, Bjőrn, Bjórn

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Bjorn5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Norway, Switzerland

    Also written Björn, BjO̸rn, Bjo̷rn, Bjőrn

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bjorn is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Norse Like Bear See Bernard

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  • In Cebuano, a male given name from Danish [in turn from Old Norse] or from Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish

    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.

Over time●

010020030040019401960198020002020331 · 2024

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Bjorn in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1925–2025
Yearrecords
19255
19445
19505
19515
19545
19568
19575
19609
19618
196211
196318
196413
196513
196613
196721
196821
196918
197028
197122
197217
197318
197422
197544
197645
197775
197865
197961
198088
198180
198261
198355
198460
198552
198662
198734
198848
198958
199037
199138
199237
199352
199436
199539
199632
199740
199851
199941
200055
200165
200248
200342
200468
200559
200655
200765
200851
200942
201053
201149
201235
201351
201463
2015100
2016153
2017220
2018251
2019254
2020302
2021327
2022323
2023314
2024331
2025298

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 73 years between 1925–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Björn Engholm, b. 1939Björn Nordqvist, b. 1942Björn Ulvaeus, b. 1945Björn Andersson, b. 1951Björn Andrésen, b. 1955Björn Borg, b. 1956Björn Kuipers, b. 1973Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, b. 1974Björn Gustafsson, b. 1986Björn Engels, b. 1994

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 65 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Bjorn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.8K#4,787
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020477#47,869
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010471#45,412
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—433#5,044
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000417#47,735
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—299#3,025
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025298—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—248#1,583
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—92#3,319
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202285—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—85#46,211
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—74#9,295

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 342 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bjorn?
We estimate roughly 78 thousand people bear Bjorn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Bjorn have the most bearers?
Bjorn is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled björn.
Where is Bjorn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bjorn is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 129 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is Bjorn compared with other names?
In Germany, Bjorn is the 273rd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Bjorn a male or female name?
Bjorn 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 Bjorn mean?
Recorded meaning: like bear; see Bernard
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bjorn” — the 273rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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