Trond
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Trond is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse.
- NONorway1 in 338◐
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M
- SESweden1 in 39K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 122 ●
- 1 in 338 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
15K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Трун in UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, Тронд in RU Russia and Trad in TR Türkiye.
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●
a male given name from Old Norse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #41 | 16,160 | 11K rec. | 1 in 338 | 51K | Trond | 122 |
| ES Spain | — | 400 | 351 rec. | — | 30 | Trond | 20 |
| GH Ghana | #383 | 341 | 314 rec. | — | — | Trond | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 306 | 275 rec. | — | — | Trond | 38 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 299 | 404 rec. | — | — | Трун | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 280 | 100 rec. | — | — | Тронд | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 259 | 167 rec. | 1 in 39K | 259 | Trond | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 195 | 132 rec. | — | listed | Trond | 25 |
| US United States | — | 115 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 2.9M | 557 | Trond | 92 |
| AU Australia | — | 94 | 80 rec. | — | 1 | Trond | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 79 | 54 rec. | 1 in 74K | 79 | Trond | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | 68 | 9 rec. | — | 389 | Trond | 15 |
Roughly 16K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 338). 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●
- Norwegian Bokmål51K66%
- Norwegian14K19%
- English2.7K4%
- German7261%
- Danish6861%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 50,728 | 66% |
| Norwegian | 14,454 | 19% |
| English | 2,747 | 4% |
| German | 726 | 1% |
| Danish | 686 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Trond is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Scandinavian: originally an ethnic byname for someone who came from the Trøndelag region in central Norway. The name was in use in the Viking period, and was revived in the early 20th century.
as a word
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 165 |
| 1946 | 183 |
| 1947 | 225 |
| 1948 | 228 |
| 1949 | 276 |
| 1950 | 261 |
| 1951 | 285 |
| 1952 | 353 |
| 1953 | 375 |
| 1954 | 430 |
| 1955 | 431 |
| 1956 | 479 |
| 1957 | 437 |
| 1958 | 523 |
| 1959 | 490 |
| 1960 | 489 |
| 1961 | 508 |
| 1962 | 588 |
| 1963 | 571 |
| 1964 | 623 |
| 1965 | 625 |
| 1966 | 590 |
| 1967 | 609 |
| 1968 | 693 |
| 1969 | 657 |
| 1970 | 602 |
| 1971 | 619 |
| 1972 | 514 |
| 1973 | 495 |
| 1974 | 448 |
| 1975 | 370 |
| 1976 | 391 |
| 1977 | 323 |
| 1978 | 306 |
| 1979 | 317 |
| 1980 | 275 |
| 1981 | 221 |
| 1982 | 245 |
| 1983 | 214 |
| 1984 | 170 |
| 1985 | 152 |
| 1986 | 160 |
| 1987 | 118 |
| 1988 | 134 |
| 1989 | 109 |
| 1990 | 91 |
| 1991 | 81 |
| 1992 | 48 |
| 1993 | 66 |
| 1994 | 61 |
| 1995 | 49 |
| 1996 | 49 |
| 1997 | 27 |
| 1998 | 27 |
| 1999 | 32 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 16 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 74 years between 1945–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Trond Kirkvaagb. 1946NONorwegian comedian, scriptwriter, and actor (1946-2007)
- Trond Brænneb. 1953NONorwegian actor and writer, lyricist (1953–2013)
- Trond Bjerknæsb. 1958NONorwegian film composer
- Trond Solliedb. 1959NONorwegian footballer and manager
- Trond Giskeb. 1966NONorwegian politician
- Trond Espen Seimb. 1971NONorwegian actor
- Trond Fausa Aurvågb. 1972NONorwegian actor
- Trond Andersenb. 1975NONorwegian footballer
- Trond Halbob. 1977NONorwegian actor
- Trond Nilssenb. 1990NONorwegian actor
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
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 · 207 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Trond?
- We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Trond (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Trond have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Trond in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled trond.
- Where is Trond most common?
- Trond is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 338 people carrying it.
- How common is Trond compared with other names?
- In Norway, Trond is the 41st most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Trond a male or female name?
- Trond 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 Trond mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse
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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, “Trond” — the 41st most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.