Svede

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Svede is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 159K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 1.4M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 5M

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.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

≈66 people, est.

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Svede 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.

Where Svede is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈66 est.≈1 in 5MlistedSvede57
LV Latvia≈12 est.≈1 in 159K—Svede5
GB United Kingdom≈5 est.≈1 in 13M—Svede3
NO Norway41 in 1.4M4—2
AU Australia≈3 est.≈1 in 9M—Svede6

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Svede is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Latvian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, Lithuania

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Švēde, Švede, Švedė

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Švēde

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Švede

  • Croatian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Švede, Švēde

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Svede 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 Danish, to sweat

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Svede
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4#73,282
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Svede have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 66 people named Svede in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled svede.
How common is the name Svede?
In Norway, the national register counted 4 people named Svede, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Svede”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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