Kate Monk's Onomastikon

(Dictionary of Names)


Danish Surnames

These were usually patronymics (the father's name with the suffixes '-sen' for a son and '-datter' for a daughter) until laws regarding inherited surnames were introduced in the C19th. Names ending in '-sson' or 'son' are likely to be of Swedish origin. During the late C18th, it was not considered fashionable to have a Danish surname and the aristocracy tended to change to French or German forms or spellings, some of which are retained.

Adriansen Andersen Any
Arge Arneborg Assenbjerg
Auken Bau Beck
Bekker Berthelsen Billes
Binzer Blach Bock
Bogedal Bondo Bonnikson
Borge BrÝ nstedt Brahe
Brandhorst Broberg Brondun
Burmeister Cabble Carlsen
Carstensen Ceder Chemnitz
Christensen Christiansen Clahn
Claussen Colding Crumlin
Dalum Damsgaard Danielsson
Didenksen Drusse Ebel
Eberlein Ejlersgaard Eldjárn
Ellegaard Eriksen Ernst
Espersen FÝ jl Falkoner
Fallingborg Fenger Fetterlein
Fine Fog Follerup
Frandsen Frandson Fredskild
Friis-Knutzen Fynbo Gade
Gimsing Glob Goldbaek
GrÝ n Gram Greve
Grimlot Gruntvig Guildenstern
Guldbrandsen HÝ eg Halkenhvad
Hamburger Hammer Hamsun
Hannestad Hansen Hardenberg
Hasso Hedhoft Heiberg
Heintze Helveg Henrik
Hjelmslev Hoegh Hogh
Holby Holm Hørby
Hoyer Hvass Hviid
Hylgaard JÝ rgensen Jacobsen
Jakkelsen Jamissen Jaspersen
Jensen Jeppesen Jepsen
Johannsen Johansson Jorgensen
Junge Karseffni Kaustrop
Kingo Kirkeby Kjeldsen
Kjölbye Klindt Kock
Kofod Kolb Kotzebue
Krak Krogh Kruhl
Lò bing Lagermann Lander
Langvardt Larsen Laudrup
Laugeson Laundsen Lauritzen
Laursen Lavrsen Licht
Lillesoe Lorenz Loyen
Lund Lundgaard Lundgard
Lundvall Lynnerup MÝ ller
Madsen Maj Majland
Mandelbrot Markert Meindl
Meinert Meling Meulengracht
Mikkelsen Milling Moesgaard
Molnar Moltke Most
Munk Nerhus Niebuhr
Nielsen Nielson Nissen
Nylén Obel Olrik
Olsen Orum Ostgerg
Ottesen Ove Pallesen
Pálsson Paulsen Pedersen
Petersen Piechnik Pilegaard
Poertner Qvist Raaby
Rasmussen Ravn Reuter
Rieper Riis Rink
Riseger Roesdahl Rohrmann
Ronholt Rønne Rosenkrantz
Rriis Rude Sand
Sandstrod Schjonberg Schmeichel
Schou Seidenfaden Sellevold
Simonsen Skaarup Skou
Skovgaard Soerensen Solvig
Sondergaard Sonne Sørensen
Sponneck Staer Steincke
Stenger Storegaard Stubbe
Stuer Svendsen Tarnovius
Teglbjaerg Telling Thodberg
Thomsen Thornom Thunmark
Thyregod Tilling Toefting
Toksvig Tommen Tyllesen
Uhre Vilfort Villumsen
Ving Virl Wain
Werlauff Wieghorst Willadsen
Witzke Wiuff Zinck
Zoega    


This collection of names was compiled by Kate Monk and is ©1997, Kate Monk.

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