Laufey
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laufey is a given name, most frequently recorded in Iceland. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script.
- ISIceland1 in 598◐
- DKDenmark1 in 428K
- NONorway1 in 443K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 3,565 | 91% |
| US United States | 181 | 5% |
| DK Denmark | 62 | 2% |
| NO Norway | 54 | 1% |
| GB United Kingdom | 15 | 1% |
≈3,877 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic3.6K92%
- English1614%
- Danish632%
- Norwegian Bokmål421%
- Spanish121%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 3,618 | 92% |
| English | 161 | 4% |
| Danish | 63 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 42 | 1% |
| Spanish | 12 | 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●
- Laufey Valdimarsdóttirb. 1890ISIcelandic women's rights activist and lawyer (1890–1945)
- Laufey Ólafsdóttirb. 1981ISIcelandic footballer
- Laufey Johannsdottirb. 1982ISIcelandic association football player
- Laufey Lín Jónsdóttirb. 1999ISIcelandic singer-songwriter (born 1999)
- Laufey T. Amundadottirb. 2000ISIcelandic cell biologist and geneticist
- Laufey Tryggvadottirb. 2000CAresearcher
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 794 | #188 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 561 | #79 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 539 | #69 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #13,208 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #5,289 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #28,922 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021) | 2021 | 11 | #38 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2022 | 1 | #2,258 |
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 1 | — |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
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 · 10 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Laufey?
- Our records include 3,877 bearers of Laufey across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Laufey have the most bearers?
- Laufey is most frequently recorded in Iceland.
- Is Laufey a male or female name?
- Laufey is a female 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laufeyThe 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, “Laufey”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.