Kjell-Ove
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/ɕɛluːve/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Kjell-Ove is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 34K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 464K
- NONorway≈1 in 3.6M
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
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
297 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
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 Kjellove 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)Kjell-Ove 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 | 297 | 1 in 34K | 297 | Kjell-Ove | 3 |
| FI Finland | 12 | 1 in 464K | 26 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 172 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Kjellove | 2 |
297 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling kjell-ove. 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). 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)- Kjell-Ove Widmanb. 1940SEnot in their usual nameSwedish mathematician
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 297 | #3,955 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 254 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 251 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 251 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 251 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 250 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 247 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 247 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 247 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 247 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 246 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 246 | — |
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 Kjell-Ove?
- It depends on the language: in Swedish /ɕɛluːve/; in Finnish /kjelo̞ve/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kjell-Ove a male or female name?
- Kjell-Ove is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Kjell-Ove have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 297 people named Kjell-Ove, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Kjell-Ove.
- Where is Kjell-Ove most common?
- Kjell-Ove is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kjell-Ove?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 297 people named Kjell-Ove, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kjell-Ove?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kjell-oveThe 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, “Kjell-Ove”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.