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Icelandic Names

How naming works in Iceland — order, inheritance, particles, and the names Foundry's own data sees most often, backed by a live parser.

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Common names in Iceland

The given and family names Foundry sees most often for Iceland, each shown with its share of what Foundry has learned — not an official statistic, just what the engine's own data reflects.

Given names

  1. Anna 1.12%
  2. Jón 0.94%
  3. Gunnar 0.9%
  4. Guðrún 0.88%
  5. Sigurður 0.87%
  6. Guðmundur 0.8%
  7. Helga 0.78%
  8. Kristín 0.69%
  9. Einar 0.69%
  10. Margrét 0.68%

Family names

  1. Jónsson 1.46%
  2. Jónsdóttir 1.34%
  3. Guðmundsson 1.26%
  4. Sigurðsson 1.15%
  5. Sigurðardóttir 1.11%
  6. Guðmundsdóttir 1.09%
  7. Gunnarsson 1.05%
  8. Ólafsson 0.83%
  9. Ólafsdóttir 0.81%
  10. Einarsson 0.79%

Naming conventions in Iceland

Icelandic given names are drawn from a list regulated by the Icelandic Naming Committee.

-son / -dóttir

"son of" / "daughter of" a father's (occasionally mother's) given name -- most Icelanders have a patronymic instead of an inherited family name

Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Because the "surname" changes every generation, Icelandic phone books are alphabetized by given name, not by it -- Foundry's salutation logic accounts for this too.

Analyze name from Iceland

Split full names from Iceland into given name, family name, titles, and particles — calibrated confidence instead of a single guess, powered by Foundry.

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This page is one view onto Foundry's Name Intelligence engine, fixed to the Iceland context. For the full feature list, how it works, and other countries, see Name Intelligence.

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