Petersson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/petes`on/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petersson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 412(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- DKDenmark1 in 7.9K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 412 (inferred from the name graph)
24,774 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petersson 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.
24,774 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
- Alfred Peterssonb. 1860SESwedish politician and minister of agriculture
- William Peterssonb. 1895SEathletics competitor (1895–1965)
- Hans Peterssonb. 1902DEGerman mathematician (1902-1984)
- Bo Peterssonb. 1946SESwedish footballer and manager
- Torkel Peterssonb. 1969SESwedish actor
- Ivan Mathias Peterssonb. 1971SEactor, director and screenwriter
- Johan Peterssonb. 1973SESwedish handball player
- Magnus Peterssonb. 1975SESwedish archer
- Aleksandrs Pētersonsb. 1980ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic handball player (born 1980)
- Håvard Vad Peterssonb. 1984NONorwegian male curler
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25K | #19 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 742 | #546 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 282 | #5,494 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 202 | #7,417 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 186 | #102,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 152 | #115,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 108 | #141,788 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 56 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 40 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 40 | #58,513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #107,452 |
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 Petersson mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Petersson?
- In the etymology graph, Persson is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Petersson?
- A machine transcription gives /petes`on/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Petersson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Petersson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petersson.
- Where is Petersson most common?
- Petersson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 412 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petersson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 24,774 people named Petersson, about 1 in 412 residents.
- How common is Petersson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Petersson is the 693rd most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Petersson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peterssonThe 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, “Petersson” — the 693rd most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.