Palmgren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Swedish surname; from palm 'palm' + gren 'branch'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/palmɡreːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Palmgren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 5.7K
- NONorway1 in 37K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,398 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Swedish surname; from palm 'palm' + gren 'branch'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Palmgren 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 | 2,398 | 1 in 4.3K | 2.4K | Palmgren | 42 |
| FI Finland | 983 | 1 in 5.7K | 983 | Palmgren | 12 |
| US United States | 549 | 1 in 606K | 549 | Palmgren | 154 |
| NO Norway | 148 | 1 in 37K | 148 | — | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 730K | 21 | Palmgren | 19 |
| DK Denmark | 89 | 1 in 66K | 89 | — | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Palmgren | 1 |
2,398 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Axel Palmgrenb. 1867FIFinnish politician
- Valfrid Palmgrenb. 1877SESwedish politician
- Selim Palmgrenb. 1878FIFinnish composer and pianist (1878–1951)
- Alvar Palmgrenb. 1880FIFinnish botanist (1880-1960)
- Aurore Palmgrenb. 1880SESwedish actress (1880-1961)
- Arvid Palmgrenb. 1890SESwedish mechanical engineer (1890–1971)
- Pontus Palmgrenb. 1907FIFinnish professor of zoology, ornithologist and entomologist (1907 - 1993)
- Raoul Palmgrenb. 1912FIFinnish writer (1912-1995)
- Roger Palmgrenb. 1963SESwedish footballer and manager
- Josefin Palmgrenb. 1989SESwedish writer
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.4K | #428 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 983 | #1,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 549 | #39,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 528 | #39,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 512 | #45,060 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 402 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 148 | #10,589 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 89 | #6,171 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 21 | #87,652 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Palmgren mean, and where does it come from?
- Swedish surname; from palm 'palm' + gren 'branch' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Palmgren?
- In Swedish /palmɡreːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Palmgren have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Palmgren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palmgren.
- Where is Palmgren most common?
- Palmgren is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Palmgren?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,398 people named Palmgren, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palmgrenThe 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, “Palmgren”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.