Olofsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/u:lofson/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olofsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 467(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
- BJBenin≈1 in 2K
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)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)
21,868 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a 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)
Olofsson 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 | #22 | 21,868 | 1 in 467 | 22K | Olofsson | 157 |
| BJ Benin | #119 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Olofsson | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 389 | 1 in 14K | 389 | Olofsson | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | 330 | 1 in 17K | 330 | Olofsson | 28 |
| US United States | — | 162 | 1 in 2.1M | 171 | Olofsson | 118 |
| DK Denmark | — | 127 | 1 in 46K | 127 | Olofsson | 33 |
21,868 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Olofsson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym mit -son/-sson zu Olof; keine Gegenstücke mit -son nachweisbar. 27 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Clark Olofssonb. 1947SESwedish criminal behind Stockholm syndrome (1947–2025)
- Pale Olofssonb. 1947SESwedish musician
- Dan Olofssonb. 1950SESwedish businessman
- Anders Olofssonb. 1952SESwedish racing driver (1952–2008)
- Maud Olofssonb. 1955SESwedish politician
- Linda Olofssonb. 1973SESwedish television personality
- Anna Olofssonb. 1981SESwedish snowboarder
- Johanna Olofssonb. 1991SESwedish ice hockey player
- Victor Olofssonb. 1995SESwedish ice hockey player
- Freja Olofssonb. 1998SEassociation 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22K | #24 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 389 | #4,314 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 330 | #4,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 171 | #109,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 162 | #109,258 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 149 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 127 | #4,296 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Olofsson 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 Olofsson?
- A machine transcription gives /u:lofson/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Olofsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Olofsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olofsson.
- Where is Olofsson most common?
- Olofsson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 467 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Olofsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 21,868 people named Olofsson, about 1 in 467 residents.
- How common is Olofsson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Olofsson is the 22nd most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olofssonThe 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, “Olofsson” — the 22nd most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.