Johannson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym zu Johannes mit -son; 487 Belege
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/joʊhænsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Johannson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 37K
- NONorway1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronym zu Johannes mit -son; 487 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Johannson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Johannson | 1 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Johannson | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 184K | listed | Johannson | 62 |
| CA Canada | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Johannson | 96 |
| US United States | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 145 | Johannson | 122 |
| NO Norway | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | — | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 38 | Johannson | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the dfa-band-6 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hartvig Johannsonb. 1875NONorwegian businessman
- Johan Johannsonb. 1881NOfeatured in the Norwegian Who's Who 1948
- Johan Johannsonb. 1911NONorwegian businessperson
- Anne Marie Franzénb. 1914SEnot in their usual nameSwedish ethnologist (1915-1975)
- Rolf Johanssonb. 1953SEnot in their usual nameSwedish roboticist (1953-)
- John Johannsonb. 1961USAmerican ice hockey player
- Jim Johannsonb. 1964USAmerican ice hockey player and executive (1964–2018)
- Lena Johannsonb. 1967DEGerman journalist
- Johan Johannsonb. 1967NONorwegian businessman
- Kevin Johannsonb. 1993EEEstonian singer (born 1993)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #26,265 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 38 | #2,718 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 36 | #2,872 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Johannson?
- A machine transcription gives /joʊhænsən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Johannson mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Johannes mit -son; 487 Belege.
- In which country does Johannson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Johannson in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johannson.
- How common is the name Johannson?
- In Norway, the national register counted 50 people named Johannson, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johannsonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Johannson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.