Sweden
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sweden is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: kingdom, Europe.
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
- AUAustralia
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
kingdom, Europe
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sweden counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 124 | Sweden | 103 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9 | Sweden | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Sweden | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | — | Sweden | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | — | Sweden | 6 |
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 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Sweden is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 124 | #139,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116 | #143,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9 | #154,387 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sweden mean, and where does it come from?
- kingdom, Europe Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Sweden have the most bearers?
- Sweden is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled sweden.
What do you want to know about Sweden?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/swedenThe 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, “Sweden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.