Carl-Johan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Carl-Johan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
  • BJBenin≈1 in 6.7K
  • FIFinland1 in 17K

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)

2,905 people

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carl-Johan 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.

Where Carl-Johan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#4232,9051 in 3.5K2.9KCarl-Johan69
BJ Benin#199≈1,900 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Carl-Johan4
FI Finland—3241 in 17K509Carl-Johan12
NO Norway—≈44 est.≈1 in 124K60Carl-Johan7
DE Germany—≈43 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Carl-Johan16
EE Estonia—≈3 est.≈1 in 352KlistedCarl-Johan3

2,905 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling carl-johan. 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 — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carl-Johan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, Benin

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Carljohan

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Carljohan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Carljohan

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Карл-Юхан

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Cay Sundström, b. 1902Carl-Johan Slotte, b. 1933Carl-Johan Wilson, b. 1934Carl-Johan Bernhardt, b. 1946Carl-Johan Malmberg, b. 1950Carl-Johan Vallgren, b. 1964Carl-Johan Lindqvist, b. 1971Carl-Johan Björk, b. 1982Carl-Johan Meyer, b. 1994Wille Jakobsson, b. 2002

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 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Carl-Johan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.9K#847
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20112.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20122.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20082.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20132.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20102.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20092.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20142.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20152.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20162.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20172.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20182.1K—

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

Is Carl-Johan a male or female name?
Carl-Johan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Carl-Johan have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Carl-Johan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Carl-Johan.
Where is Carl-Johan most common?
Carl-Johan is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Carl-Johan?
In Sweden, the national register counted 2,905 people named Carl-Johan, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Carl-Johan compared with other names?
In Sweden, Carl-Johan is the 423rd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Carl-Johan” — the 423rd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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