Nordling

Nordling is a Swedish surname.

Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 45.0% of all known bearers of the surname Nordling were residents of Sweden (frequency 1:8,199), 32.1% of the United States (1:421,039), 16.5% of Finland (1:12,464), 1.6% of Denmark (1:131,268), 1.6% of Norway (1:119,589) and 1.3% of Australia (1:660,385).

In Sweden, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:8,199) in the following counties:
 * 1. Västernorrland County (1:2,440)
 * 2. Värmland County (1:2,983)
 * 3. Uppsala County (1:3,463)
 * 4. Gotland County (1:4,177)
 * 5. Gävleborg County (1:5,284)
 * 6. Södermanland County (1:5,584)
 * 7. Stockholm County (1:6,989)
 * 8. Dalarna County (1:7,995)
 * 9. Blekinge County (1:8,102)
 * 10. Örebro County (1:8,149)

In Finland, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:12,464) in the following regions:
 * 1. Ostrobothnia (1:2,594)
 * 2. Åland (1:3,229)
 * 3. Satakunta (1:3,812)
 * 4. Southwest Finland (1:6,012)
 * 5. Uusimaa (1:8,890)

Notable people

 * Carl O. Nordling (1919–2007), Finland-Swedish architect and statistician
 * Carl Nordling, former chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics
 * Frans Hjalmar Nordling (1890–1931), Fennicized as Nortamo, Finnish writer and doctor
 * Jeffrey Nordling (b. 1962), American actor
 * Raoul Nordling, Swedish consul general in Paris during World War II
 * Alan Nordling, MLA for Yukon Territory from Porter Creek South