Carlsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ka:l`son/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carlsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 338(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 4.4K
- NONorway1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 338 (inferred from the name graph)
30,154 people
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:
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carlsson 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 | — | 30,154 | 1 in 338 | 30K | Carlsson | 40 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,280 | 1 in 4.4K | 1.3K | Carlsson | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 997 | 1 in 5.9K | 997 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 980 | 1 in 5.6K | 980 | Carlsson | 4 |
| US United States | — | 526 | 1 in 632K | 567 | Carlsson | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | Carlsson | 8 |
| BJ Benin | #215 | — | — | — | Carlsson | 4 |
30,154 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Carlsson 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, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Karl mit -sson; auch skandinavisch möglich, Bearer count: 130.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Karl, mit -sson; 441 Belege
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Arvid Carlssonb. 1923SESwedish neuroscientist
- Ingvar Carlssonb. 1934SEPrime Minister of Sweden from 1986 to 1991 and 1994 to 1996
- Ralph Carlssonb. 1952SESwedish actor
- Ing-Marie Carlssonb. 1957SESwedish actress
- Gunilla Carlssonb. 1963SESwedish politician
- Elisabet Carlssonb. 1968SESwedish actress
- Andreas Carlssonb. 1973SESwedish composer
- Åsa Svenssonb. 1975SEnot in their usual nameSwedish tennis player
- Robynb. 1979SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer (born 1979)
- Agnes Carlssonb. 1988SESwedish 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 32 sources across 17 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 Carlsson 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 Carlsson?
- A machine transcription gives /ka:l`son/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Carlsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Carlsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carlsson.
- Where is Carlsson most common?
- Carlsson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 338 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Carlsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 30,154 people named Carlsson, about 1 in 338 residents.
- How common is Carlsson compared with other names?
- In Benin, Carlsson is the 215th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Carlsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carlssonThe 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, “Carlsson” — the 215th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.