Svensen

surname · Latin script

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

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

Svensen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 66K
  • FIFinland1 in 186K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

1,866 people

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Svensen 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 Svensen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#4721,8661 in 2.9K1.9KSvensen54
US United States—1371 in 2.4M186Svensen88
DK Denmark—891 in 66K89Svensen35
GB United Kingdom—≈63 est.≈1 in 1M69Svensen33
FI Finland—301 in 186K30——
GT Guatemala—≈26 est.≈1 in 651K—Svensen1
NZ New Zealand—≈13 est.≈1 in 376K—Svensen6

1,866 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Svensen is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Norway

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Svensén

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Svensén

  • Finnish name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Svensén

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Svensén

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Свенсен, Svensén

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Sven Hans Jørgen Svensen, b. 1856Sven Svensen, b. 1863Henrik Svensen, b. 1904Åsfrid Svensen, b. 1936Helge Svensen, b. 1953Grethe Svensen, b. 1965Marit T. Hardeberg Svensen, b. 1966Henrik H. Svensen, b. 1970

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 Svensen,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Svensen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.9K#525
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20181K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2019995—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2020987—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021970—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022961—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023951—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024944—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025933—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020186#102,982
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000149#109,915
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010137#125,282

Reference works 4

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

How do you pronounce Svensen?
A machine transcription gives /svənsən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Svensen have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Svensen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled svensen.
Where is Svensen most common?
Svensen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Svensen?
In Norway, the national register counted 1,866 people named Svensen, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
How common is Svensen compared with other names?
In Norway, Svensen is the 472nd most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Svensen” — the 472nd most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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