Names of Åland Islands AX

ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) records Anna as the commonest given name in the Åland Islands and Karlsson as the commonest surname.

Written in Swedish.

Population
26K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
292
ABuilt from 1 official register (2025), 292 name forms in our corpus, 9 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Åland Islands

Names in Åland Islands follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Åland Islands

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames), 2025 — 50 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Anna298—
2Maria277—
3Eva211—
4Linda145—
5Inger139—
6Kerstin135—
7Johanna128—
8Emma118—
9Elin110—
10Jenny108—
11Hanna107—
11Siv107—
13Camilla104—
14Sara102—
14Sofia102—
16Ida101—
17Malin99—
18Pia88—
19Nina87—
20Gun86—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) 2025Across all recordsanna: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. annanot rankedmaria: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. marianot rankedeva: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. evanot rankedlinda: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. lindanot rankedinger: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. ingernot rankedkerstin: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. kerstinnot rankedjohanna: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. johannanot rankedemma: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. emmanot rankedelin: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. elinnot rankedjenny: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. jennynot rankedhanna: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. hannanot rankedsiv: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. sivnot rankedcamilla: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. camillanot rankedsara: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. saranot rankedsofia: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. sofianot rankedida: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. idanot rankedmalin: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. malinnot rankedpia: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. pianot rankednina: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. ninanot rankedgun: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. gunnot rankedåsa: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. åsanot rankedjulia: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. julianot rankedannika: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. annikanot rankedlena: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. lenanot rankedulla: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. ullanot ranked
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ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames), 2025 on the left; every record we hold for Åland Islands on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Scripts & spelling

Camanosurname(measured from records)
Leegiven name(measured from records)
Alagiven name(measured from records)
Terrygiven name(measured from records)
Macksurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Åland Islands, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Åland Islands?
Anna, according to ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) (2025), with 298 bearers recorded among girls.
What is the most common surname in Åland Islands?
Karlsson, according to ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) (2025), with 1,080 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Åland Islands?
Because they count different people. ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Anna. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Lee. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Åland Islands”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/AX (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames).