Karl-Henrik
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ka:l`henrik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karl-Henrik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 25K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 58K
- NONorway≈1 in 138K
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)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
416 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 Karlhenrik in US United States.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karl-Henrik 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 | 416 | 1 in 25K | 416 | Karl-Henrik | 39 |
| FI Finland | 96 | 1 in 58K | 138 | Karl-Henrik | 6 |
| NO Norway | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 148 | Karl-Henrik | 13 |
| DK Denmark | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Karl-Henrik | 20 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 205M | — | KarlHenrik | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 3 |
416 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling karl-henrik. 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 — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)
- Karl-Henrik Robèrtb. 1947SEnot in their usual nameSwedish scientist
- Karl-Henrik Larssonb. 1948SEnot in their usual nameSwedish mycologist
- Karl-Henrik Gunderssenb. 1968NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian musician
- Santeri Kinnunenb. 1969FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor
- Karl-Henrik Grinnemob. 1971not in their usual namesurgeon and researcher
- Karl-Henrik Ousbäckb. 1993SEnot in their usual nameSwedish composer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 416 | #3,151 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 297 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 296 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 292 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 289 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 288 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 287 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 287 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 286 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 286 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 286 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 284 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Karl-Henrik?
- A machine transcription gives /ka:l`henrik/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Karl-Henrik a male or female name?
- Karl-Henrik is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Karl-Henrik have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 416 people named Karl-Henrik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Karl-Henrik.
- Where is Karl-Henrik most common?
- Karl-Henrik is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karl-Henrik?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 416 people named Karl-Henrik, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Karl-Henrik?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karl-henrikThe 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, “Karl-Henrik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.