Ejnar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Old Norse Einarr
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
Ejnar is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 150as Einar
- NONorway1 in 556as Einar
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ejnar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
14,414 named Einar
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Эйнар in NO Norway, FI Finland.
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)a male given name from Old Norse Einarr
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ejnar 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.
14,414 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)Ejnar 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, a male given name from Old Norse
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)- Ejnar Hertzsprungb. 1873NLDanish astronomer and chemist
- Ejnar Mikkelsenb. 1880DKDanish explorer and writer
- Ejnar Sylvestb. 1880DKDanish family physician who described Bornholm disease
- Ejnar Olssonb. 1886SESwedish association football player, Nordic combined skier and ski jumper (1886-1983)
- Ejnar Dyggveb. 1887LVDanish architectural historian and archaeologist (1887–1961)
- Ejnar Tønsagerb. 1888NONorwegian rower
- Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussenb. 1892DKDanish architect (1892–1975)
- Anders Andersenb. 1912DKnot in their usual nameDanish farmer (1912-2006)
- Peter Seebergb. 1925DKnot in their usual nameDanish writer (1925–1999)
- Jan E. Jørgensenb. 1965DKnot in their usual nameDanish politician
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 802 | #378 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 606 | #2,415 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 439 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 409 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 391 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 362 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 327 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 316 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 289 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 269 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 249 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 230 | — |
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 Ejnar mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Norse Einarr Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ejnar a male or female name?
- Ejnar is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Ejnar have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Einar, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ejnar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ejnar is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 7.3 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ejnar?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 802 people named Ejnar, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ejnar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ejnarThe 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, “Ejnar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.