Svendsén
surname · Latin script
Svendsén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Originally a patronymic from Svend + -sen.
- NONorway1 in 296(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 540
- USUnited States1 in 127Kas Swensen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Svendsén itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- 1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
18,446 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Svendsen in NO Norway, DK Denmark, SE Sweden and 1 more and Swensen in US United States, TC Turks & Caicos Islands.
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)
Originally a patronymic from Svend + -sen.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Svendsén 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #26 | 18,446 | 1 in 296 | 18K | Svendsen | 114 |
| DK Denmark | #49 | 10,861 | 1 in 540 | 11K | Svendsen | 154 |
| US United States | — | 2,627as Swensen | 1 in 127K | 2.6K | Swensen | 291 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Svendsen | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 532 | 1 in 19K | 532 | Svendsen | 36 |
| GL Greenland | — | 158 | 1 in 365 | 158 | — | 6 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #49 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Swensen | 1 |
18,446 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Svendsén mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a patronymic from Svend + -sen. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Svendsén have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Svendsén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled svendsen.
- Where is Svendsén most common?
- Svendsén is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 296 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Svendsén?
- In Norway, the national register counted 18,446 people named Svendsén, about 1 in 296 residents.
- How common is Svendsén compared with other names?
- In Norway, Svendsén is the 26th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/svends%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, “Svendsén” — the 26th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.