Agnar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑɡnɑr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agnar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Old Norse Agnarr, from age (“awe”) or egg (“sharp point”) + herr (“army”) or geirr (“spear”).
- ISIceland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 7.9K
- SESweden1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
692 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Old Norse Agnarr, from age (“awe”) or egg (“sharp point”) + herr (“army”) or geirr (“spear”).
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agnar 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.
692 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Agnar 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.
In Swedish, indefinite nominative plural of agn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Agnar Johannes Barthb. 1871NONorwegian forester (1871-1948)
- Jacb. 1884SEnot in their usual nameSwedish illustrator (1884–1942)
- Agnar Skeidsvollb. 1900NONorwegian writer (1900-1963)
- Agnar Mykleb. 1915NONorwegian writer and puppeteer (1915–1994)
- Agnar Þórðarsonb. 1917ISIcelandic writer (1917-2006)
- Agnar Sandmob. 1938NONorwegian economist (1938–2019)
- Agnar Höskuldssonb. 1939DKDanish chemist
- Bjørn Weggeb. 1947NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian humanitarianist
- Agnar Aasb. 1951NOcivil servant
- Agnar Christensenb. 1969NONorwegian association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Agnar mean, and where does it come from?
- Old Norse Agnarr, from age (“awe”) or egg (“sharp point”) + herr (“army”) or geirr (“spear”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Agnar?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑɡnɑr/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Agnar a male or female name?
- Agnar 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.
- In which country does Agnar have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 692 people named Agnar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agnar.
- Where is Agnar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Agnar is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Agnar?
- In Norway, the national register counted 692 people named Agnar in 2025, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Agnar?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agnarThe 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, “Agnar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.