Pehrsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pehrsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 15K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 34K
- DKDenmark1 in 35K
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
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
659 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)
Pehrsson 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.
659 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
- Matts Pehrssonb. 1796SESwedish politician (1796-1869)
- Per Pehrssonb. 1867SESwedish priest
- Hans-Gösta Pehrssonb. 1910SESwedish politician and Waffen-SS volunteer (1910–1974)
- Inger Pehrssonb. 1935SEcostume designer
- Anna-Lena Pehrssonb. 1942SESwedish writer
- Clas Pehrssonb. 1942SESwedish musician
- Cristina Husmark Pehrssonb. 1947SESwedish politician
- Stephan Pehrssonb. 1975cinematographer
- Robert Pehrssonb. 1975SESwedish musician
- Magnus Pehrssonb. 1976SESwedish footballer and manager (born 1976)
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 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 659 | #1,474 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 169 | #3,096 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 163 | #8,730 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 64 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,422 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- What does the name Pehrsson mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pehrsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 659 people named Pehrsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pehrsson.
- Where is Pehrsson most common?
- Pehrsson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pehrsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 659 people named Pehrsson, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Pehrsson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Pehrsson is the 871st most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pehrssonThe 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, “Pehrsson” — the 871st most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.