Joensen

surname · Danish · Latin script

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

Joensen is a surname, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. In Faroe Islands it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in Danish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 4.9K◐
  • FAFA1 in 11
  • FOFaroe Islands1 in 199

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

≈1.5K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
99 ●

700 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.9K ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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.

Where in the world●

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

Where Joensen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark#3571,187△416 rec.1 in 4.9K1.2KJoensen99
NO Norway—284△67 rec.1 in 19K284Joensen17
FO Faroe Islands#122335 rec.——Joensen25
US United States—149115 rec.—listedJoensen44
GB United Kingdom—3416 rec.——Joensen16
SE Sweden—31△15 rec.1 in 329K31Joensen10
GL Greenland#259290 rec.—25Joensen4
IS Iceland—187 rec.—7Joensen13
FA FA#1110 rec.——Joensen1
AR Argentina—88 rec.——Joensen6
PL Poland—5—1 in 7.7M5——
CH Switzerland—30 rec.1 in 2.8M3—2

Roughly 1.2K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 4.9K). 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●

  • Danish4.2K75%
  • English57710%
  • Norwegian Bokmål2845%
  • Norwegian1713%
  • German521%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Danish4,18175%
English57710%
Norwegian Bokmål2845%
Norwegian1713%
German521%

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◐

Joensen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname949 records spelled Joensen12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jonsen, Jonsén, Jönsen, Jönsén

33 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.

Over time●

0102030201528 · 2014

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Joensen in Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1), Greenland, 2012–2018
Yearrecords
201226
201326
201428
201525
201625
201825

GL Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) — 6 years between 2012–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Poul F. Joensen, b. 1898Sigrið av Skarði, b. 1908Sigurð Joensen, b. 1911Fridtjof Joensen, b. 1920Bodil Joensen, b. 1944Edmund Joensen, b. 1944Heri Joensen, b. 1973Páll Mohr Joensen, b. 1986Pál Joensen, b. 1990René Joensen, b. 1993

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 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Joensen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.2K#332
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—284#5,442
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—31#18,308
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201428—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201326—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201226—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201825—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201625—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201525—
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20267#4,737
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#197,502

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 2026-09-12 data build · 28 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joensen?
We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Joensen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Joensen have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.2 thousand people bear Joensen in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joensen.
How common is Joensen compared with other names?
In Denmark, Joensen is the 357th most common surname of 100,227 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Joensen” — the 357th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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