Andersson
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Andersson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic.
- SESweden1 in 48(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 217
- FIFinland1 in 400
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)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48 (inferred from the name graph)
211,085 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Andersson 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 | #1 | 211,085 | 1 in 48 | 211K | Andersson | 242 |
| BJ Benin | #3 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 217 | — | Andersson | 10 |
| FI Finland | #195 | 13,921 | 1 in 400 | 14K | Andersson | 66 |
| NO Norway | #101 | 5,076 | 1 in 1.1K | 5.1K | Andersson | 74 |
| DK Denmark | #172 | 2,731 | 1 in 2.1K | 2.7K | Andersson | 116 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 483 | 1 in 54 | 483 | — | 9 |
211,085 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Andersson 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 German, Patronymische Bildung mit Genitiv-s und Doppel-s: -sson aus -s-son entstanden; schwedische Variante. 32 Types/3082 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname mit skandinavischer Doppel-s-Schreibung -sson; Bildung von Patronymen. Belegt: 3082.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Johan Gunnar Anderssonb. 1874SESwedish archeologist and geologist (1874–1960)
- Stig Andersonb. 1931SEnot in their usual nameSwedish lyricist, music publisher, composer, music executive, manager for ABBA, teacher (1931-1997)
- Harriet Anderssonb. 1932SESwedish actress (born 1932)
- Bibi Anderssonb. 1935SESwedish actress (1935–2019)
- Roy Anderssonb. 1943SESwedish film director and screenwriter
- Benny Anderssonb. 1946SESwedish musician and composer
- Magdalena Anderssonb. 1967SEPrime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist
- Kennet Anderssonb. 1967SESwedish footballer
- Patrik Anderssonb. 1971SESwedish footballer
- Daniel Anderssonb. 1977SESwedish footballer and manager (born 1977)
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 50 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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 Andersson mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Andersson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 211 thousand people named Andersson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled andersson.
- Where is Andersson most common?
- Andersson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 48 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Andersson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 211,085 people named Andersson, about 1 in 48 residents.
- How common is Andersson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Andersson is the most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anderssonThe 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, “Andersson” — the most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.