Gustafsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a common surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gustafsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 167(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 637
- AXÅland Islands1 in 91
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 91 (inferred from the name graph)
61,244 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands
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 common 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)
Gustafsson 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 | #10 | 61,244 | 1 in 167 | 61K | Gustafsson | 195 |
| BJ Benin | #19 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Gustafsson | 7 |
| FI Finland | #304 | 8,742 | 1 in 637 | 8.7K | Gustafsson | 64 |
| NO Norway | #438 | 1,094 | 1 in 5K | 1.1K | Gustafsson | 44 |
| DK Denmark | — | 472 | 1 in 12K | 472 | Gustafsson | 64 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 289 | 1 in 91 | 289 | — | 4 |
61,244 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ragnar Gustavssonb. 1907SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer (1907-1980)
- Rune Gustafssonb. 1933SESwedish musician (1933–2012)
- Lars Gustafssonb. 1936SESwedish writer (1936-2016)
- Toini Gustafssonb. 1938SESwedish cross-country skier
- Robert Gustafssonb. 1964SESwedish actor and comedian
- Magnus Gustafssonb. 1967SESwedish tennis player
- Veikka Gustafssonb. 1968FIFinnish mountain climber, summiter of all eight-thousanders
- Björn Gustafssonb. 1986SESwedish actor and comedian
- Alexander Gustafssonb. 1987SESwedish mixed martial artist
- Simon Gustafsonb. 1995SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gustafsson mean, and where does it come from?
- a common surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gustafsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Gustafsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gustafsson.
- Where is Gustafsson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gustafsson is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 91 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gustafsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 61,244 people named Gustafsson, about 1 in 167 residents.
- How common is Gustafsson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Gustafsson is the 10th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gustafsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gustafssonThe 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, “Gustafsson” — the 10th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.