Forsén
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/fos`e:n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Forsén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Forsén, an ornamental surname based on the element fors (“waterfall”).
- SESweden1 in 12K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 14K
- NONorway1 in 304K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
885 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Forsen in US United States, BJ Benin.
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)Borrowed from Swedish Forsén, an ornamental surname based on the element fors (“waterfall”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Forsén 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.
885 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lennart Forsénb. 1889FIFinnish engineer (1889–1943)
- Yrjö Forsénb. 1889FIFinnish artist
- Olof Forsénb. 1898SESwedish journalist (1898-1967)
- Lena Forsénb. 1951SESwedish model
- Lennart Forsénb. 1959SESwedish actor
- Björn Forsénb. 1963FIFinnish historian
- Patrik Forsénb. 1984SESwedish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 885 | #1,111 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 410 | #4,124 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 230 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Forsén mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Forsén, an ornamental surname based on the element fors (“waterfall”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Forsén?
- A machine transcription gives /fos`e:n/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Forsén have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 885 people named Forsén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forsén.
- Where is Forsén most common?
- Forsén is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Forsén?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 885 people named Forsén, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Forsén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fors%C3%A9nThe 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, “Forsén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.