Steinunn
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Steinunn is a given name, most frequently recorded in Iceland. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script.
- ISIceland1 in 304◐
- DKDenmark1 in 160K
- NONorway1 in 315K
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
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 7,011 | 90% |
| US United States | 312 | 4% |
| DK Denmark | 166 | 2% |
| NO Norway | 76 | 1% |
| FI Finland | 50 | 1% |
≈7,615 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●
- Icelandic7.1K91%
- English2043%
- Danish1692%
- Norwegian Bokmål561%
- Finnish501%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 7,119 | 91% |
| English | 204 | 3% |
| Danish | 169 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 56 | 1% |
| Finnish | 50 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 17 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2014 | 23 |
| 2015 | 23 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 23 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 21 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 21 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Steinunn Refsdóttirb. 901ISpoet
- Steinunn Finnsdóttirb. 1640ISIcelandic poet
- Steinunn Sigurðardóttirb. 1950ISIcelandic writer
- Steinunn Thorarinsdottirb. 1955ISIcelandic sculptor
- Steinunn Sæmundsdóttirb. 1960ISIcelandic alpine skier
- Steinunn Ólafsdóttirb. 1962ISIcelandic actor
- Steinunn Valdís Óskarsdóttirb. 1965ISMayor of Reykjavik, Iceland
- Steinunn Kristjánsdóttirb. 1965SEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7524-8460
- Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttirb. 1969ISIcelandic actress
- Steinunn Þóra Árnadóttirb. 1977ISIcelandic politician
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 | 1.4K | #82 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 1.1K | #22 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 1.1K | #23 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #11,083 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #14,594 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #3,086 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #21,943 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #23,387 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 22 | — |
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 · 32 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Steinunn?
- Our records include 7,615 bearers of Steinunn across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Steinunn have the most bearers?
- Steinunn is most frequently recorded in Iceland.
- Is Steinunn a male or female name?
- Steinunn 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
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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, “Steinunn”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.