Bengtsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bentson/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bengtsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 346(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 5.7K
- NONorway1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bengtsson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 346 (inferred from the name graph)
29,467 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bengtson in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bengtsson 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 | 29,467 | 1 in 346 | 29K | Bengtsson | 11 |
| US United States | 3,135as Bengtson | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Bengtson | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 1,025 | 1 in 5.7K | 1K | — | — |
| NO Norway | 470 | 1 in 12K | 470 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 348 | 1 in 16K | 348 | — | — |
29,467 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Jöns Bengtssonb. 1417SESwedish archbishop
- Gunder Bengtssonb. 1946SESwedish football manager (1946-2019)
- Stellan Bengtssonb. 1952SESwedish table tennis player
- Ulf Bengtssonb. 1960SESwedish table tennis player (1960-2019)
- Maria Bengtssonb. 1964SEbadminton player
- Kristin Bengtssonb. 1970SESwedish association football player
- Björn Bengtssonb. 1972SESwedish actor
- Rasmus Bengtssonb. 1986SESwedish footballer
- Pierre Bengtssonb. 1988SESwedish association football player (born 1988)
- Robin Bengtssonb. 1990SESwedish singer
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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 Bengtsson mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bengtsson?
- A machine transcription gives /bentson/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Bengtsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Bengtsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bengtsson.
- Where is Bengtsson most common?
- Bengtsson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 346 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bengtsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 29,467 people named Bengtsson, about 1 in 346 residents.
What do you want to know about Bengtsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bengtssonThe 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, “Bengtsson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.