Sjövall
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/s2:%val/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sjövall is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 18K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
563 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sjovall in US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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 across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sjövall 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 | 563 | 1 in 18K | 563 | Sjövall | 31 |
| FI Finland | 380 | 1 in 15K | 380 | Sjövall | 6 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Sjovall | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | — | Sjovall | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
563 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Ossian Sjövallb. 18395 Apr 1839 - 15 Sep 1907
- Einar Sjövallb. 1879SESwedish physician (1879–1964)
- Harald Sjövallb. 1886SESwedish artist (1886-1955)
- Elisabet Sjövallb. 1915SESwedish politician
- Hans Sjövallb. 1922SESwedish colonel and wing commander
- Karin Svanborg-Sjövallb. 1980SESwedish writer
- Riitta SjövallFIFinnish actress
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) | — | 563 | #1,705 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 380 | #4,401 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 151 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Sjövall?
- A machine transcription gives /s2:%val/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Sjövall have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 563 people named Sjövall, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sjövall.
- Where is Sjövall most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sjövall is densest in Finland — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sjövall?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 563 people named Sjövall, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sjövall?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sj%C3%B6vallThe 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, “Sjövall”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.