Markussen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Markus (see Mark)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/mɑrkʉsːn̩/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Markussen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- GLGreenland1 in 232(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.4K
- DKDenmark1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 232 (inferred from the name graph)
3,852 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patronymic from the personal name Markus (see Mark).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Markussen 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.
3,852 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Toralv Kollin Markussenb. 1895NONorwegian politician (1895-1973)
- Niels Markussenb. 1934DKDanish sailor
- Jørgen Markussenb. 1943DKDanish footballer
- John Arne Markussenb. 1953NONorwegian journalist and contributing editor
- Michael Markussenb. 1955DKDanish bicycle racer, born 1955
- Per Terje Markussenb. 1959NONorwegian association football player
- Rudy Markussenb. 1977DKDanish boxer
- Nikolaj Markussenb. 1988DKDanish handball player
- Rubenb. 1995NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer
- Marie Dølvik Markussenb. 1997NONorwegian 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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Markussen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Markus (see Mark). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Markussen?
- In Norwegian /mɑrkʉsːn̩/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Markussen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Markussen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled markussen.
- Where is Markussen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Markussen is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 232 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Markussen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 3,852 people named Markussen, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Markussen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/markussenThe 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, “Markussen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.