Almqvist
surname · Latin script
/al̪mkʋɪ˥˩s̪t̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Almqvist is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 11K
- FIFinland1 in 27K
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
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,691 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Almqvist 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 | #194 | 3,691 | 1 in 2.8K | 3.7K | Almqvist | 93 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Almqvist | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 204 | 1 in 27K | 204 | Almqvist | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 100 | 1 in 55K | 100 | Almqvist | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | listed | Almqvist | 51 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 2 |
3,691 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvistb. 1793SESwedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller (1793-1866)
- Ester Almqvistb. 1869SESwedish painter (1869-1934)
- Osvald Almqvistb. 1884SEarchitect (1884–1950)
- Anders Almqvistb. 1885SESwedish rower (1885-1915)
- Erland Almqvistb. 1912SEsailor
- Göte Almqvistb. 1921SESwedish ice hockey player
- Reine Almqvistb. 1949SESwedish football player and manager (born 1949)
- Nicholaus Arsonb. 1977SEnot in their usual nameSwedish rock guitarist
- Pelle Almqvistb. 1978SESwedish singer
- Pontus Almqvistb. 1999SESwedish 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.7K | #268 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 204 | #7,346 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 100 | #15,210 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 66 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Almqvist?
- A machine transcription gives /al̪mkʋɪ˥˩s̪t̪/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Almqvist have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Almqvist, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled almqvist.
- Where is Almqvist most common?
- Almqvist is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Almqvist?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,691 people named Almqvist, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Almqvist compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Almqvist is the 194th 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/almqvistThe 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, “Almqvist” — the 194th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.