Johansson
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Johansson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Johan, Scandinavian form of John.
- SESweden1 in 49(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 283
- NONorway1 in 1.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)
209,107 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
patronymic from the personal name Johan, Scandinavian form of John.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Johansson 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 | #2 | 209,107 | 1 in 49 | 209K | Johansson | 239 |
| BJ Benin | #6 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 254 | — | Johansson | 8 |
| FI Finland | #152 | 19,691 | 1 in 283 | 20K | Johansson | 65 |
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Johansson | 10 |
| NO Norway | #123 | 4,974 | 1 in 1.1K | 5K | Johansson | 74 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 507 | 1 in 52 | 507 | — | 5 |
209,107 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Johansson 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 Swedish, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Eino Kailab. 1890FInot in their usual nameFinnish philosopher and psychologist (1890–1958)
- Lennart Johanssonb. 1929SEindustrialist, Swedish football administrator, president of UEFA (1990 - 2007)
- Ingemar Johanssonb. 1932SESwedish boxer (1932-2009)
- Kristina Waybornb. 1950SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress-model
- Jens Johanssonb. 1963SESwedish keyboardist
- Ylva Johanssonb. 1964SESwedish politician
- Paul Johanssonb. 1964USCanadian actor
- Thomas Johanssonb. 1975SESwedish tennis player
- Annie Lööfb. 1983SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician and party leader of the Swedish Center Party, former minister of enterprise
- Scarlett Johanssonb. 1984USAmerican actress (born 1984)
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 40 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Johansson mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Johan, Scandinavian form of John. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Johansson?
- In the etymology graph, Jonsson, Jansson and Hansson are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Johansson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 209 thousand people named Johansson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johansson.
- Where is Johansson most common?
- Johansson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Johansson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 209,107 people named Johansson, about 1 in 49 residents.
- How common is Johansson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Johansson is the 2nd most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Johansson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johanssonThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Johansson” — the 2nd most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.