Sorenson

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sorenson is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (i) son of Spren, a Scandinavian male personal name from Latin Severinus; (ii) son of the son of Sore, a Yiddish female personal name.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 154◐
  • INIndia1 in 589
  • SESweden1 in 722

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

≈64K ●

across 8 countries

#750 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
415 ●

2.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 154 ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

SurendraLatin · Hindi●3.2M records
সরেনBengali · Bangla●6.8K records
סורןHebrew · Hebrew●639 records
โซเรนThai · Thai●39 records
ШаренCyrillic · Bulgarian●1 records
සුරේන්ද්‍රSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sorensen in US United States, DK Denmark, GB United Kingdom and 12 more, Surendra in IN India, MY Malaysia, GY Guyana and 4 more, Sörensen in SE Sweden, DE Germany, AR Argentina and Soren in BD Bangladesh.

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●

(i) son of Spren, a Scandinavian male personal name from Latin Severinus; (ii) son of the son of Sore, a Yiddish female personal name.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sorenson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#664,769,6821.6M rec.—416KSurendra219
DK Denmark—38,087△4.7K rec.1 in 15438KSorensen157
SE Sweden—14,135△2.1K rec.1 in 72214KSörensen34
GB United Kingdom—13,92413K rec.—5Sorensen91
AU Australia—12,89212K rec.—3Sorensen135
CA Canada—10,86310K rec.—16Sorensen116
US United States—7,640387K rec.1 in 44K28KSorensen415
DE Germany—4,7704.3K rec.—2Sörensen66
FR France—3,760△7 rec.1 in 18K3.8K—4
IT Italy—1,9892.1K rec.—1Sorensen14
NZ New Zealand—1,9671.8K rec.—10Sorensen44
MY Malaysia—1,850893 rec.——Surendra24

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

Languages●

  • English153K85%
  • Spanish7.3K4%
  • 4.9K3%
  • German1.4K1%
  • Portuguese1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English152,93985%
Spanish7,3144%
4,8853%
German1,4401%
Portuguese1,1541%

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◐

Sorenson is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname9.5K records spelled Sorenson4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Sörenson

  • a separate surname5.5K records spelled Sorenson2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Sörenson

  • Korean surname187 records spelled Sorenson2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, North Korea

    Also written Sörenson

41 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.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Virginia Sorensen, b. 1912Paul Sorensen, b. 1926Theodore Sorensen, b. 1928Linda Sorenson, b. 1940Rickie Sorensen, b. 1946Dave Sorenson, b. 1948Arne Sorenson, b. 1958Eric Sorensen, b. 1976Corey Sorenson, b. 1980Jesse Sorensen, b. 1989

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.

Official registers attesting Sorenson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201016K#2,284
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200016K#2,104
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202015K#2,351
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—22#46,680
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7#48,299
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5#63,015
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#290,577
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#389,116
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20082—

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sorenson?
We estimate roughly 64 thousand people bear Sorenson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Sorenson have the most bearers?
Sorenson is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled surendra.
Where is Sorenson most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sorenson is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 154 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Sorenson compared with other names?
In India, Sorenson is the 66th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Sorenson mean?
Recorded meaning: (i) son of Spren, a Scandinavian male personal name from Latin Severinus; (ii) son of the son of Sore, a Yiddish female personal name.
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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sorenson” — the 66th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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