Per-Arne
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pe:ra:n`e/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Per-Arne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
- NONorway≈1 in 14K
- BJBenin≈1 in 32K
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
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,432 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Per-Arne 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 | #985 | 1,432 | 1 in 7.1K | 1.4K | Per-Arne | 38 |
| BJ Benin | #791 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Per-Arne | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1.1K | Per-Arne | 41 |
| FI Finland | — | 7 | 1 in 796K | 35 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 45M | — | Per-Arne | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Per-Arne | 7 |
1,432 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling per-arne. 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Per-Arne Croonab. 1922SEnot in their usual nameSwedish jazz saxophonist
- Per-Arne Berglundb. 1927SEnot in their usual nameSwedish javelin thrower (1927-2002)
- Per-Arne Ehlinb. 1942SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actor
- Per-Arne Arvidssonb. 1950SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Per-Arne Bjerkeb. 1952NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician, journalist and contributing editor (1952-2015)
- Per-Arne Skogstadb. 1952NOnot in their usual nameLeader of Norway's Civil Aviation Authority of Norway 2000–2005
- Per-Arne Alexanderssonb. 1954SEnot in their usual nameSwedish ice hockey player
- Per-Arne Håkanssonb. 1963SEnot in their usual namepolitician and Member of the parliament of Sweden
- Per-Arne Svenssonb. 1969not in their usual nameresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.4K | #1,332 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 1.2K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Per-Arne?
- A machine transcription gives /pe:ra:n`e/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Per-Arne a male or female name?
- Per-Arne is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Per-Arne have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Per-Arne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Per-Arne.
- Where is Per-Arne most common?
- Per-Arne is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Per-Arne?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,432 people named Per-Arne, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Per-Arne compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Per-Arne is the 985th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Per-Arne?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/per-arneThe 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, “Per-Arne” — the 985th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.