Gustavsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: a common surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/gu0sta:vson/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gustavsson 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 167as Gustafsson(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 637as Gustafsson
- AXÅland Islands1 in 91as Gustafsson
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gustavsson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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 named Gustafsson
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands, as Gustafsson
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gustafsson in SE Sweden, FI Finland, NO Norway and 2 more.
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)
‘Son of Gustaf’, a Swedish personal name meaning literally ‘cudgel of the Gaut people’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Gustavsson is read(measured from records)
Gustavsson is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swedish77%
a common surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.3%
‘Son of Gustaf’, a Swedish personal name meaning literally ‘cudgel of the Gaut people’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gustavsson 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 | 61,244as Gustafsson | 1 in 167 | 61K | Gustafsson | 195 |
| BJ Benin | #19 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Gustafsson | 7 |
| FI Finland | #304 | 8,742as Gustafsson | 1 in 637 | 8.7K | Gustafsson | 64 |
| NO Norway | #438 | 1,094as Gustafsson | 1 in 5K | 1.1K | Gustafsson | 44 |
| DK Denmark | — | 472as Gustafsson | 1 in 12K | 472 | Gustafsson | 64 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 289as Gustafsson | 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)
- Bengt Gustavssonb. 1928SESwedish footballer (1928-2017)
- Carina Gustavssonb. 1962SESwedish rower
- Thomas G:sonb. 1968SEnot in their usual nameSwedish composer
- Tony Gustavssonb. 1973SESwedish footballer (born 1973)
- Jonas Gustavssonb. 1984SESwedish ice hockey goaltender
- Matilda Voss Gustavssonb. 1987SESwedish journalist
- Daniel Gustavssonb. 1990SESwedish association football player
- Charlie Gustafssonb. 1992SESwedish actor
- Frida Gustavssonb. 1993SESwedish model
- Patrik Gustavssonb. 2001SEThai association football player (2001-)
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22K | #23 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 802 | #2,288 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 296 | #5,199 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 272 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 62 | #8,656 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Where does the name Gustavsson come from?
- ‘Son of Gustaf’, a Swedish personal name meaning literally ‘cudgel of the Gaut people’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gustavsson?
- A machine transcription gives /gu0sta:vson/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- What does the name Gustavsson mean?
- In Swedish, a common surname originating as a patronymic
- In which country does Gustavsson 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 is Gustavsson most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Gustavsson itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Åland Islands's: the national register counts about 1 in 91 people named Gustafsson.
- How common is the name Gustavsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 61,244 people named Gustafsson, about 1 in 167 residents.
- How common is Gustavsson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Gustavsson is the 10th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gustavsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gustavssonThe 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, “Gustavsson” — the 10th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.