Forssell
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɔɹsəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Forssell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
- FIFinland1 in 5.4K
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
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,108 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
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)
Forssell 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 | #835 | 1,108 | 1 in 9.2K | 1.1K | Forssell | 56 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,040 | 1 in 5.4K | 1K | Forssell | 24 |
| US United States | — | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 143 | Forssell | 93 |
| NO Norway | — | 56 | 1 in 98K | 56 | Forssell | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | — | Forssell | 16 |
| BJ Benin | — | — | — | — | Forssell | 3 |
1,108 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
- Hans Forssellb. 1843SESwedish historian and political writer (1843-1901)
- Victor Forssellb. 1846SESwedish painter (1846-1931)
- Arne Forssellb. 1887SESwedish journalist (1887–1974)
- Carl Forssellb. 1917SEfencer (1917-2005)
- Lars Forssellb. 1928SESwedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (1928-2007)
- Gry Forssellb. 1973SESwedish radio and television host (born 1973)
- Mikael Forssellb. 1981FIFinnish footballer
- Erik Forssellb. 1982SESwedish ice hockey player (born 1982)
- Joar Forssellb. 1993SESwedish politician
- Hugo Forssellb. 1999SESwedish cyclist
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.1K | #922 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1K | #1,835 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 468 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 126 | #137,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,211 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Forssell?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔɹsəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Forssell have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Forssell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forssell.
- Where is Forssell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Forssell is densest in Finland — about 1 in 5.4 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Forssell?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,108 people named Forssell, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Forssell compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Forssell is the 835th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Forssell?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/forssellThe 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, “Forssell” — the 835th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.