Öve
surname · Latin script
Öve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Danish Aghi, possibly a short form of compound names beginning with Germanic agh "blade" or Old Norse agi "awe". Related to German (Frisian) Uwe.
- SESweden1 in 365(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 365 (inferred from the name graph)
27,936 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ove in SE Sweden, NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old Danish Aghi, possibly a short form of compound names beginning with Germanic agh "blade" or Old Norse agi "awe". Related to German (Frisian) Uwe. Sometimes explained as a form of Scandinavian Åge/Åke.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Öve counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 27,936 | 1 in 365 | 28K | Ove | 7 |
| NO Norway | 5,336 | 1 in 1K | 17K | Ove | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 4,266 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.3K | — | — |
| FI Finland | 731 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 155 | 1 in 2.1M | 159 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 37 | 1 in 467K | 37 | — | — |
27,936 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Öve is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of öv
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Öve mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Danish Aghi, possibly a short form of compound names beginning with Germanic agh "blade" or Old Norse agi "awe". Related to German (Frisian) Uwe. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Öve have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Öve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ove.
- Where is Öve most common?
- Öve is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 365 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Öve?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 27,936 people named Öve, about 1 in 365 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6veThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Öve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.