Norway: haplogroups
FamilyTreeDNA has 4,565 kits with a Y-DNA result and 3,863 kits with mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). On the paternal line the most common are I1-DF29 — 29%, R1b-L51 — 26% and R1a-Z284 — 19%. On the maternal line the most common are H — 43%, U — 17% and J1 — 9%. YFull has 456 samples for Y from the same area, and its mix of major branches is almost the same. The largest gap is R: 52% on FTDNA against 45% on YFull.
Compare with…Paternal line · Y-DNA
4,565 kits · 30 branchesAmong the rest: G 53, J 51, E 43, T 14, A 5, L 2, H 1, C 1.
Maternal line · mtDNA
3,863 kits · 30 branchesAmong the rest: W 85, X 55, HV 51, Z 33, N 19, R 4, L 2, G 2, M 1.
Migration paths of the characteristic branches #
Paths of the region's main characteristic branches, as modelled by FamilyTreeDNA Discover, on one calendar clock: in each year a branch stands where its ancestral line was. Grey is a stretch of path shared by several branches; the large marker is the branch itself. Above the map you can pick the paternal line (Y-DNA) or the maternal one (mtDNA).
Norway: Y-DNA #
Distinctive branches
Branches found here far more often than worldwide: their share is more than 3× the world share. The multiplier is in brackets. Branches of at least 10 kits are included.
- R-Z287: 316 kits · 6.9% (95% confidence interval: 6–8%) (×14.7) 3,700 years
- R-Z284 R1a-Z284: 874 kits · 19.1% (95% confidence interval: 18–20%) (×11.8) 4,200 years
- I-L813: 354 kits · 7.8% (95% confidence interval: 7–9%) (×13.5) 2,900 years
- R-L448: 425 kits · 9.3% (95% confidence interval: 9–10%) (×11.6) 2,900 years
- R-S5301: 499 kits · 10.9% (95% confidence interval: 10–12%) (×10.7) 3,200 years
- R-CTS4179: 290 kits · 6.4% (95% confidence interval: 6–7%) (×11.0) 2,500 years
- I-BY266: 245 kits · 5.4% (95% confidence interval: 5–6%) (×10.3) 2,000 years
- R-Z372: 169 kits · 3.7% (95% confidence interval: 3–4%) (×7.0) 3,700 years
Most similar countries
Countries whose mix of major branches looks most like this one. The number is similarity: 100% is the same mix, lower means less in common. Computed only for countries with 100+ kits.
All 112 countries and regions by similarity
- Sweden 89%
- Denmark 76%
- England 67%
- United Kingdom 66%
- Scotland 63%
- United States 62%
- Netherlands 62%
- Germany 60%
- Canada 59%
- Belgium 55%
- Wales 54%
- France 53%
- Northern Ireland 53%
- Switzerland 52%
- Australia 52%
- Iceland 51%
- Ireland 49%
- Austria 46%
- United States (Native American) 45%
- Estonia 43%
- Czech Republic 43%
- England (Cornish) 43%
- Hungary 42%
- Poland 41%
- Isle of Man 40%
- Finland 39%
- Italy 38%
- South Africa 38%
- Portugal 37%
- Spain 37%
- Russia 37%
- Slovakia 37%
- Luxembourg 35%
- Slovenia 34%
- Brazil 33%
- New Zealand 32%
- Jamaica 31%
- Puerto Rico 31%
- Ukraine 31%
- Romania 31%
- Lithuania 29%
- Croatia 29%
- Latvia 29%
- Mexico 28%
- Bulgaria 27%
- Belarus 26%
- Greece 26%
- Serbia 25%
- Colombia 25%
- Cuba 24%
- Macedonia 24%
- Italy (Sicily) 23%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 21%
- Mordovia 21%
- Argentina 20%
- Tatarstan 20%
- Chile 18%
- Moldova 18%
- Turkey 17%
- Albania 17%
- Dominican Republic 17%
- Montenegro 16%
- Israel 16%
- Peru 14%
- Lebanon 13%
- Chuvashia 13%
- India 13%
- Bashkortostan 12%
- Iran 12%
- Armenia 12%
- Uzbekistan 12%
- Azerbaijan 12%
- Kazakhstan 11%
- Syria 11%
- Georgia 11%
- Morocco 10%
- Iraq 10%
- Afghanistan 10%
- Karelia 9%
- Egypt 9%
- Palestine 9%
- Algeria 9%
- Tajikistan 9%
- Pakistan 9%
- Dagestan 8%
- Qatar 8%
- Jordan 8%
- Tunisia 8%
- United Arab Emirates 8%
- Sri Lanka 8%
- Saudi Arabia 8%
- Bahrain 7%
- Kuwait 7%
- Adygea 7%
- Libya 6%
- Philippines 6%
- Indonesia 6%
- Oman 5%
- Mongolia 5%
- Sudan 5%
- Yemen 4%
- Nigeria 4%
- China 4%
- Chechnya 4%
- Cameroon 3%
- Japan 3%
- Orstkhoy (Aosta Valley in FTDNA) 2%
- Somalia 2%
- South Korea 2%
- Ingushetia 1%
- Ghana 1%
- Vietnam 1%
Norway: mtDNA #
Distinctive branches
Branches found here far more often than worldwide: their share is more than 3× the world share. The multiplier is in brackets. Branches of at least 10 kits are included.
- Z1a: 33 kits · 0.9% (95% confidence interval: 1–1%) (×8.6)
- V14: 11 kits · 0.3% (95% confidence interval: 0–1%) (×12.4)
- H1o: 14 kits · 0.4% (95% confidence interval: 0–1%) (×8.0)
- H1m: 22 kits · 0.6% (95% confidence interval: 0–1%) (×5.0)
- V3a: 17 kits · 0.4% (95% confidence interval: 0–1%) (×4.1)
- H16: 21 kits · 0.5% (95% confidence interval: 0–1%) (×3.6)
- I2a: 19 kits · 0.5% (95% confidence interval: 0–1%) (×3.1)
Most similar countries
Countries whose mix of major branches looks most like this one. The number is similarity: 100% is the same mix, lower means less in common. Computed only for countries with 100+ kits.
All 71 countries and regions by similarity
- England 91%
- Sweden 91%
- United Kingdom 90%
- Ireland 90%
- Scotland 89%
- Germany 88%
- United States 87%
- France 86%
- Wales 86%
- Denmark 85%
- Netherlands 85%
- Switzerland 84%
- Northern Ireland 84%
- Czech Republic 83%
- Belgium 82%
- Canada 82%
- Poland 81%
- Russia 80%
- Austria 79%
- Hungary 79%
- Slovakia 78%
- Estonia 77%
- Finland 77%
- Australia 76%
- Italy 75%
- Slovenia 74%
- Ukraine 74%
- Portugal 72%
- Croatia 72%
- Lithuania 69%
- Spain 68%
- Romania 68%
- Bulgaria 67%
- Serbia 67%
- Latvia 66%
- United States (Native American) 64%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 63%
- Belarus 63%
- Greece 62%
- Moldova 54%
- Algeria 54%
- Turkey 50%
- Morocco 50%
- Chechnya 49%
- New Zealand 48%
- Syria 44%
- Israel 43%
- Armenia 43%
- Lebanon 43%
- South Africa 36%
- Cuba 36%
- Iraq 34%
- Egypt 34%
- Brazil 34%
- Iran 34%
- Saudi Arabia 31%
- Kuwait 26%
- United Arab Emirates 26%
- Argentina 23%
- Dominican Republic 21%
- Mexico 20%
- India 19%
- Puerto Rico 17%
- Canada (First Nations) 15%
- China 7%
- Jamaica 7%
- Chile 6%
- Colombia 4%
- Japan 3%
- South Korea 0%
- Philippines 0%
The same country on YFull #
The same country at the second company, YFull. Its samples are placed on the FTDNA tree by shared mutations, so the branches are comparable. FTDNA share on the left, YFull on the right, then the difference in percentage points. Republics and other sub-regions are taken out of the country, as at FTDNA. Starred branches are nearly empty at YFull: every test there is whole-genome and reaches the fine branches. Only YFull customers (YF number) are counted, no ancient DNA. YFull data of 2026-11-02. The tree shows only its top three levels.
Y-DNA
mtDNA
The same country on the project maps
Y-DNA FTDNA 4,565 · Projects 2,415
mtDNA FTDNA 3,863 · Projects 2,010
New this month #
FTDNA: how much the kit count grew between the tree copies of 2026-10-09 and 2026-11-12. A kit that moved to a new sub-branch after refinement is not counted as new. YFull: samples YFull itself marks as new, in the copy of 2026-11-02; YFull drops the mark after a few weeks.
Y-DNA: branches that grew
- R-CTS4179: +4
- I-BY266: +2
- I-L813: +2
- R-Z287: +2
- E-M123*: +1
- I-CTS10057*: +1
- I-S2078*: +1
- I-S7660: +1
- I-Z2535: +1
- I-Z73*: +1
- N-Y5004: +1
- R-CTS1211* R1a-CTS1211: +1
- R-L2* R1b-L2: +1
- R-YP256: +1
mtDNA: branches that grew
New Y-DNA samples in YFull
- R-FGC36232 · Telemark · Norwegians
- R-FTF17460 · Akershus
Regions on YFull #
Regions that cannot be picked at FTDNA but are reported by YFull customers. Regions with 20 or more samples are shown; modern YFull customers only. YFull regions →
| Country / region | Y | mt | Leading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedmark NO-04 | 79 | 22 | R-Z284 R1a-Z284 33%, I-Z59 I1-Z59 20%, I-Z2338 I1-Z2338 20% |
| Akershus NO-02 | 47 | 9 | I-DF29 I1-DF29 34%, R-Z282 R1a-Z282 19%, R-L51 R1b-L51 17% |
| More og Romsdal NO-15 | 44 | 15 | G-L497 G2a-L497 16%, R-L21 R1b-L21 11%, R-Z282 R1a-Z282 9% |
| Hordaland NO-12 | 34 | 17 | R-L51 R1b-L51 53%, R-Z284 R1a-Z284 18%, I-Z59 I1-Z59 9% |
| Sogn og Fjordane NO-14 | 28 | 10 | R-L51 R1b-L51 29%, R-Z284 R1a-Z284 18%, G-L497 G2a-L497 18% |
| Oppland NO-05 | 26 | 5 | R-Z284 R1a-Z284 35%, I-Z59 I1-Z59 27%, R-U106 R1b-U106 12% |
| Sor-Trondelag NO-16 | 25 | 12 | R-Z284 R1a-Z284 32%, R-L48 R1b-L48 20%, I-Z59 I1-Z59 12% |
| Buskerud NO-06 | 21 | 4 | I-CTS6868 I1-CTS6868 33%, R-Z284 R1a-Z284 19%, E-V13 E-V13 19% |
Peoples and languages on YFull #
Native language reported by YFull customers from this country. People from regions with a page of their own (republics, autonomies) are shown there. These are the testers' own answers, not a census.
- Norwegians 33 / 9
- Norwegians (Bokmål) 9 / 4
- English 7 / 3
- Northern Sami 3 / 3
Recent kin across borders #
Shared young paternal branches: YFull customers from this country and from the partner country have a common paternal-line ancestor no older than 500 years. The comparison accounts for how linked a country is abroad overall: shown are partners with more shared branches than its general openness would give. It reflects recent migration and shared ancestry, not ethnicity.
| Country | shared branches | expected | × | chance? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 14 | 0.36 | 38.7 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
Paternal and maternal lines together #
Members of this people with both lines known on YFull. For each “Y branch × mt branch” combination, how many times it occurred and how many would be expected if the two lines had nothing to do with each other. Y and mt pairs → n=145
Most frequent combinations
| Y | mt | pairs | expected by chance | × | chance? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I1-CTS6868 | H1b | 4 | 0.5 | 8.29 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
Ancient relatives of male lines #
Which cultures of the Copper Age and Early Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) the local male lines lead to most closely. The share is how many kits lead to a culture; the range is in brackets.
- Neolithic Scandinavian and Corded Wareshared branches: I-S63, R-P310, R-M417
in the same bar: Seima-Turbino culture, Bell Beaker culture85%(51%–94%) - No close ancient relativesalso cultures under 3% and kits with shallow tests15%
How it is counted
- Branches of the era. We take the ancient samples whose date falls inside the era, and compare the lines as they stood 1,500 years before the era ends.
- A culture’s profile is the share of its lines on those branches. The number of samples does not change a weight: a culture of seven men weighs as much as one of a hundred and twenty.
- A shallow test. An ancient man typed above the cut is spread over the branches under his node, by how many men each holds now. Today’s kits are treated the same way.
- Who is admitted. A culture takes part when its sharply typed men cover 25% of the population on their own: branch by branch we add the smaller of the two shares, the culture’s and the population’s. One dug within 550 km needs only 0.5%.
- The shares. We pick the weights of the cultures so that their mixture comes as close as it can to today’s set of branches.
- Look-alike cultures. When cultures share almost all their branches, the data cannot say whose kin the men are. So we do not split the share between them: they get one bar.
- The range. We recount everything on random subsets of the samples. In brackets are the bounds the share keeps in nine runs out of ten. A share that can fall below 5%, or below half of itself, is not shown at all.
What it does not mean. This is kinship of male lines, not the origin of a people. The female lines say nothing here. Who takes a test is a matter of chance, so the shares compare between countries, not with a census.
Other eras: Early Middle Ages — Iron Age Scandinavian 50%.
Ancient samples
Iron Age Scandinavian 27 · Bronze Age Scandinavian 19 · Early Norse 15 · Viking Age Norwegian 3 · Neolithic Scandinavian 2
All ancient samples →Data on this page: FamilyTreeDNA Y tree, 12 November 2026: 4,565 kits; FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA tree, 11 November 2026: 3,863 kits; YFull Y tree, 2 November 2026: 456 samples; YFull mtDNA tree, 2 November 2026: 163 samples.
How to cite: ftdnastat, "Norway: Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups", https://ftdnastat.github.io/en/c/norway/, data of 2026-11-14, build 20261114-18dba71.
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