Svenja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Svenia; Svenje; Swenja: in der zweiten Hälfte des 20
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Svenja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 9.9K
- ATAustria≈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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Svenia; Svenje; Swenja: in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jh.s aufgekommener weibl. Vom., der als weibliche Bildung zu
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Svenja 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #383 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 1 | Svenja | 211 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Svenja | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Svenja | 50 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 319 | Svenja | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 246 | 1 in 70K | 246 | Svenja | 26 |
| IS Iceland | — | 5 | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
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 de-leipzig-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Svenja Pagesb. 1966DEGerman actress
- Svenja Schlichtb. 1967DEGerman swimmer
- Svenja Schulzeb. 1968DEGerman politician
- Svenja Niekerkenb. 1979DEGerman actress
- Svenja Bazlenb. 1984DEtriathlete
- Svenja Hahnb. 1989DEGerman politician
- Svenja Huthb. 1991DEGerman footballer
- Svenja Brunckhorstb. 1991DEGerman basketball player (born 1991)
- Svenja Jungb. 1993DEGerman actress
- Svenja Würthb. 1993DEGerman nordic combined skier and ski jumper
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- In which country does Svenja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Svenja in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled svenja.
- What does the name Svenja mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Svenia; Svenje; Swenja: in der zweiten Hälfte des 20.
- Is Svenja a male or female name?
- Svenja is a female 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.
- How common is the name Svenja?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 246 people named Svenja, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Svenja compared with other names?
- In Germany, Svenja is the 383rd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/svenjaThe 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, “Svenja” — the 383rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.