Pettersson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a common surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʰɛt̪ɛʂɔn̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pettersson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Peterson(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 125Kas Петерсон
- CZCzechia1 in 669Kas Peterson
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pettersson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178 (inferred from the name graph)
278,297 named Peterson, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Peterson in US United States, CZ Czechia, Петерсон in RU Russia, EE Estonia and Петерсоне in FI Finland.
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 common 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)
Pettersson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 278,297as Peterson | 1 in 1.2K | 278K | Peterson | 78 |
| SE Sweden | — | 54,381 | 1 in 188 | 54K | Pettersson | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,953 | 1 in 1.4K | 4K | Петерсоне | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,222 | 1 in 4.5K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Петерсон | 111 |
| EE Estonia | — | 682as Peterson | 1 in 1.8K | 682 | Петерсон | 9 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 147 | 1 in 178 | 147 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | #154 | 16as Peterson | 1 in 669K | 16 | Peterson | 18 |
278,297 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & 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)
- Otto Petterssonb. 1848SESwedish chemist and oceanographer
- Carl Emil Petterssonb. 1875SESwedish-born King of Tabar Island (1875-1937)
- Hans Petterssonb. 1888SESwedish oceanographer, physicist and explorer (1888–1966)
- Allan Petterssonb. 1911SESwedish composer and violist
- Gösta Petterssonb. 1940SESwedish road racing cyclist
- Stefan Petterssonb. 1963SESwedish footballer
- Jörgen Petterssonb. 1975SESwedish footballer
- Velvetb. 1975SEnot in their usual nameSwedish dance-pop singer
- Rafael Petterssonb. 1976SESwedish actor
- Simon Petterssonb. 1994SESwedish athletics competitor
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Pettersson mean, and where does it come from?
- a common surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pettersson?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɛt̪ɛʂɔn̪/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- What are other forms of the name Pettersson?
- In the etymology graph, Persson is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pettersson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 278 thousand people named Peterson, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pettersson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pettersson is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 178 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pettersson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 54,381 people named Pettersson, about 1 in 188 residents.
- How common is Pettersson compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Pettersson is the 154th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pettersson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petterssonThe 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, “Pettersson” — the 154th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.