Berven
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɝvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 17K
- GHGhana≈1 in 302K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
328 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
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)
Berven 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 328 | 1 in 17K | 328 | Berven | 7 |
| US United States | 222 | 1 in 1.5M | 301 | Berven | 152 |
| IT Italy | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 467K | — | Berven | 1 |
| GH Ghana | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Berven | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Berven | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Berven | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 404K | — | Berven | 1 |
328 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
- Hjalmar Bervenb. 1884SESwedish architect (1884-1928)
- Øyvin Bervenb. 1957NONorwegian actor (1957-)
- Mads Bervenb. 1977NOjazz musician
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 328 | #4,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 301 | #70,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 294 | #63,450 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 222 | #84,463 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Berven?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝvən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Berven have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 328 people named Berven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berven.
- Where is Berven most common?
- Berven is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Berven?
- In Norway, the national register counted 328 people named Berven, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Berven?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bervenThe 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, “Berven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.