Andersen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Andersen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname. In English, recorded as ‘son of Anders’, Danish and Norwegian form of Andreas.
- DKDenmark1 in 41(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 53
- SESweden1 in 2.2K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41 (inferred from the name graph)
143,880 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘son of Anders’, Danish and Norwegian form of Andreas
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Andersen is read(measured from records)
Andersen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
‘son of Anders’, Danish and Norwegian form of Andreas
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A surname from Danish [in turn originating as a patronymic] of Danish and Norwegian origin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Hans Christian, Danish author
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Danish32%
Danish patronymic, from Anders < Andreas
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
a common surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Andersen in Norwegian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Andersen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #4 | 143,880 | 1 in 41 | 144K | Andersen | 249 |
| NO Norway | #6 | 103,146 | 1 in 53 | 103K | Andersen | 152 |
| CN China | — | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Andersen | 18 |
| US United States | — | 36,150 | 1 in 9.2K | 37K | Andersen | 357 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 1 | Andersen | 85 |
| SE Sweden | #149 | 4,552 | 1 in 2.2K | 4.6K | Andersen | 91 |
| GL Greenland | — | 556 | 1 in 104 | 556 | — | 22 |
| IS Iceland | #416 | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 1 | Andersen | 30 |
143,880 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Andersen 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 German, patronymic from the given name Anders < Andreas
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Hans Christian Andersenb. 1805DKDanish writer and poet (1805–1875)
- Martin Andersen Nexøb. 1869DKDanish writer (1869–1954)
- Lale Andersenb. 1905DEGerman singer and actress (1905–1972)
- Elga Andersenb. 1935DEGerman actress and singer (1935–1994)
- Eric Andersenb. 1943USAmerican musician
- Jørn Andersenb. 1963NONorwegian-born German football player and manager
- Kristian Eidnes Andersenb. 1966DKDanish composer and sound designer
- Anja Andersenb. 1969DKDanish handball player
- David Andersenb. 1980AUAustralian basketball player (born 1980)
- Stephan Andersenb. 1981DKDanish footballer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Andersen mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Anders’, Danish and Norwegian form of Andreas Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Andersen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 144 thousand people named Andersen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled andersen.
- Where is Andersen most common?
- Andersen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 41 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Andersen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 143,880 people named Andersen, about 1 in 41 residents.
- How common is Andersen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Andersen is the 4th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Andersen?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/andersenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Andersen” — the 4th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.