Unnur
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Unnur is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: wave.
- ISIceland1 in 311◐
- DKDenmark1 in 147K
- SESweden1 in 340K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.2K ●
- Sources
- 1 ●
- 1 in 311 ◐
across 3 countries
0 records
Derived
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
wave
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Roughly 1.1K people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 311). 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●
- Icelandic6.7K90%
- English1652%
- Danish1442%
- 901%
- Norwegian Bokmål881%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 6,722 | 90% |
| English | 165 | 2% |
| Danish | 144 | 2% |
| 90 | 1% | |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 88 | 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 | 14 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 13 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 22 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 23 |
| 2015 | 24 |
| 2016 | 19 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 17 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 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●
- Huldab. 1881ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic poet (1881–1946)
- Unnur Eiríksdóttirb. 1921ISIcelandic translator
- Unnur Jökulsdóttirb. 1955ISIcelandic writer
- Unnur Steinssonb. 1963ISMiss Iceland
- Unnur Wilhelmsenb. 1964NONorwegian opera singer
- Unnur Birna Karlsdóttirb. 1964ISIcelandic historian and writer
- Unnur Valdimarsdóttirb. 1972ISIcelandic epidemiologist
- Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttirb. 1974ISIcelandic politician
- Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttirb. 1976ISIcelandic actor
- Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttirb. 1984ISIcelandic model
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.1K | #118 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 1K | #25 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 986 | #37 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 88 | #8,458 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 40 | #3,059 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #19,265 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 22 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #30,235 |
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 · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Unnur?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Unnur (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Unnur have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Unnur in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Unnur most common?
- Unnur is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 311 people carrying it.
- Is Unnur a male or female name?
- Unnur 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.
- What does the name Unnur mean?
- Recorded meaning: wave
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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, “Unnur”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.