Švede

surname · Latin script

Švede is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
  • LTLithuania≈1 in 303K
  • NONorway1 in 1.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (inferred from the name graph)

≈64 people, est.

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Švēde in LV Latvia, Svede in US United States and Švedė in LT Lithuania.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Švede 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.

Where Švede is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia≈64 est.≈1 in 29K—Švēde9
LT Lithuania≈9 est.≈1 in 303K—Švedė4
NO Norway41 in 1.4M4——
US United States——listedSvede7
SE Sweden——1——

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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Švede is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Švēde, Svede

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Švēde, Svede

  • Ukrainian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Latvia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Шведе, Shvede, Švēde, Svede

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Švede under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Švede have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 64 people named Švede in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled švēde.
How common is the name Švede?
In Norway, the national register counted 4 people named Švede, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1vede

The 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, “Švede”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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