Mathiesen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/mɑthɪəsn̩/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Mathiesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- GLGreenland1 in 514(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.4K
- NONorway1 in 2K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 514 (inferred from the name graph)
4,216 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Greenland
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)a surname originating as a patronymic
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mathiesen 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.
4,216 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); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); 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)- Haaken C. Mathiesenb. 1827NONorwegian businessman
- Christian P. Mathiesenb. 1870NONorwegian politician (1870–1953)
- Per Mathiesenb. 1885NOgymnast (1885-1961)
- Charles Mathiesenb. 1911NONorwegian speed skater (1911–1994)
- Mihkel Mathiesenb. 1918EEEstonian politician (1918-2003)
- Mattis Mathiesenb. 1924NONorwegian cinematographer (1924-2010)
- Thomas Mathiesenb. 1933NONorwegian sociologist (1933–2021)
- Árni Mathiesenb. 1958ISIcelandic politician
- Lone Mathiesenb. 1972Danish handball player
- Pernille Mathiesenb. 1997DKDanish cyclist, born 1997
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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 Mathiesen mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mathiesen?
- In Norwegian /mɑthɪəsn̩/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mathiesen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Mathiesen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mathiesen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mathiesen is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 514 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mathiesen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 4,216 people named Mathiesen, about 1 in 1.4 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/mathiesenThe 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, “Mathiesen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.