Lagerkvist
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Par R, Swedish author (Nobel 1951)
Lagerkvist is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Sweden.
- SESweden
- BJBenin
- NONorway
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Par R, Swedish author (Nobel 1951)
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- SESweden
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- BJBenin
- NONorway
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Lagerkvist 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 Croatian, švedski književnik, Nobelova nagrada 1951.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Helmer Lagerkvistb. 1887SESwedish politician (1887–1948)
- Pär Lagerkvistb. 1891SESwedish writer (1891–1974)
- Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvistb. 1944SESwedish astronomer
- Hedvig Lagerkvistb. 1971SESwedish actress
- Magnus Lagerkvistb. 2000SESwedish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 739 | #1,333 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,470 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Lagerkvist mean, and where does it come from?
- Par R, Swedish author (Nobel 1951) Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Lagerkvist have the most bearers?
- Lagerkvist is most frequently recorded in Sweden.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lagerkvistThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lagerkvist”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.