Names of Svalbard & Jan Mayen SJ

Names in Svalbard & Jan Mayen are recorded in Norwegian, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in Norwegian.

Population
2.9K
Name forms recorded
28
CBuilt from 28 name forms in our corpus, 9 cited works.

No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Svalbard & Jan Mayen

Names in Svalbard & Jan Mayen follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Svalbard & Jan Mayen

Every record we hold for Svalbard & Jan Mayen — 28 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#NameEstimated bearersHow common
4Jesus——
6Del——
9Enrique——

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Svalbard & Jan Mayen at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Scripts & spelling

Contrerassurname●
Perezsurname●
Chaconsurname●
Jesusgiven name●
Delgiven name●
The best-attested names in Svalbard & Jan Mayen, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Svalbard & Jan Mayen?
We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Svalbard & Jan Mayen”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/SJ (data snapshot 2026-09-12).