Popularity ranking · Denmark

The 100 most popular Poets in Denmark

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest poets in Denmark, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 114 poets tracked in Denmark, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë and Bertolt Brecht lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 44k people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 2.6k, and the largest, Sylvia Plath, reaches around 15k people in Denmark. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Denmark who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Denmark and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Denmark who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Denmark. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Denmark, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Denmark. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Joyce Carol Oates 3.5k 52.9 84.0% Poet
27 Cyrano de Bergerac 3.4k 36.6 47.6% Poet
28 Wilfred Owen 3.3k 57.3 69.7% Poet
29 Nikolai Gogol 3.1k 41.6 26.7% Poet
30 Hafez 3k 43.9 56.1% Poet
31 John Cooper Clarke 2.9k 48.5 31.6% Poet
32 Anne Brontë 2.9k 45.9 66.7% Poet
33 Audre Lorde 2.7k 36.0 75.0% Poet
34 Miguel de Cervantes 2.6k 46.8 63.7% Poet
35 Friedrich Schiller 2.3k 43.1 60.0% Poet
36 Iris Murdoch 2.2k 34.6 54.7% Poet
37 Chinua Achebe 2.1k 41.0 56.2% Poet
38 John Milton 2.1k 23.8 67.9% Poet
39 Robert Graves 2k 56.8 83.7% Poet
40 W. H. Auden 1.9k 43.8 76.8% Poet
41 Clarissa Pinkola Estés 1.9k 56.0 100.0% Poet
42 Mehmet Akif Ersoy 1.9k 44.4 40.4% Poet
43 Ibn Taymiyyah 1.8k 25.8 29.6% Poet
44 John Updike 1.6k 41.1 52.7% Poet
45 Husayn ibn Ali 1.6k 28.4 34.2% Poet
46 John Keats 1.5k 34.5 36.6% Poet
47 Muhammad al-Bukhari 1.5k 36.5 37.9% Poet
48 Seamus Heaney 1.3k 40.0 75.0% Poet
49 Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum 1.2k 35.5 21.9% Poet
50 Thích Nhất Hạnh 1.1k 55.4 100.0% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Denmark and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in Denmark?

Sylvia Plath currently leads with an estimated audience of 15k people in Denmark.

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