Svenn
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/sʋænː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Svenn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 62K
- GHGhana≈1 in 222K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,014 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Svenn 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.
1,014 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)- Schwen Hans Jensenb. 1795DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1795-1855)
- Svenn Eske Kristensenb. 1905DKDanish autobiographer (1905-2000)
- Svenn Strayb. 1922NONorwegian politician (1922-2012)
- Svenn Kristiansenb. 1940NONorwegian politician (1940–2024)
- Svenn Torgersenb. 1941NONorwegian psychologist
- Svenn Skipperb. 1947Danish composer (1947–2021)
- Svenn Jakobsenb. 1960NOaudio technician (born 1960)
- Svenn Erik Bjørnstadb. 1971NONorwegian ice hockey player
- Svenn Erik Medhusb. 1982NONorwegian handball player
- Svenn Croneb. 1995DKDanish association football player
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
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 Svenn?
- A machine transcription gives /sʋænː/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Svenn a male or female name?
- Svenn is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Svenn have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Svenn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled svenn.
- Where is Svenn most common?
- Svenn is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Svenn?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,014 people named Svenn in 2025, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Svenn compared with other names?
- In Norway, Svenn is the 717th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Svenn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/svennThe 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, “Svenn” — the 717th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.