Svare

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Danish: to answer, reply, respond (give a reply to a question; with a noun phrase or a noun clause as its object, with or without an indirect object)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/zvɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Svare is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • NONorway
  • DKDenmark

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to answer, reply, respond (give a reply to a question; with a noun phrase or a noun clause as its object, with or without an indirect object)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Svare is read(measured from records)

Svare is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English60%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Svare in English.

  • Danish11%

    to answer, reply, respond (give a reply to a question; with a noun phrase or a noun clause as its object, with or without an indirect object)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Norwegian8.6%

    to reply, answer

    as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Bokmålkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Svare is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, third-person plural present of svariti

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18801900192019401960Bjarne Svare, b. 1897Harland Svare, b. 1930Ivar Svare, b. 1931Steen Svare, b. 1955Helge Svare, b. 1960

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)

FormalDear Svare,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Svare
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—286#5,419
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020199#97,730
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000178#95,091
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010177#101,737
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—168#3,104
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7#48,434
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#43,496
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Svare mean, and where does it come from?
to answer, reply, respond (give a reply to a question; with a noun phrase or a noun clause as its object, with or without an indirect object) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Svare?
A machine transcription gives /zvɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Svare have the most bearers?
Svare is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Svare”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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