Svensson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a common surname originating as a patronymici
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s̪ʋɛ˧˩n̪s̪ɔn̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Svensson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 121(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.9K
- NONorway1 in 2.6K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121 (inferred from the name graph)
84,125 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a common surname originating as a patronymici
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Svensson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #9 | 84,125 | 1 in 121 | 84K | Svensson | 199 |
| BJ Benin | #11 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 567 | — | Svensson | 7 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 6 | Svensson | 2 |
| DK Denmark | #184 | 3,057 | 1 in 1.9K | 3.1K | Svensson | 103 |
| NO Norway | #271 | 2,114 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.1K | Svensson | 57 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,244 | 1 in 4.5K | 1.2K | Svensson | 21 |
84,125 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Lill-Babsb. 1938SEnot in their usual nameSwedish schlager singer (1938-2018)
- Lars Svenssonb. 1941SESwedish ornithologist (born 1941)
- Peter Svenssonb. 1974SESwedish musician and record producer
- Michael Svenssonb. 1975SESwedish footballer
- Anders Svenssonb. 1976SESwedish footballer
- Bo Svenssonb. 1979DKDanish footballer and manager (born 1979)
- Ola Svenssonb. 1986SESwedish recording artist
- Gustav Svenssonb. 1987SESwedish association football player (born 1987)
- Jonas Svenssonb. 1993NONorwegian footballer (born 1993)
- Daniel Svenssonb. 2002SESwedish footballer (born 2002)
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 31 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 Svensson mean, and where does it come from?
- a common surname originating as a patronymici Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Svensson?
- A machine transcription gives /s̪ʋɛ˧˩n̪s̪ɔn̪/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Svensson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 84 thousand people named Svensson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled svensson.
- Where is Svensson most common?
- Svensson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 121 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Svensson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 84,125 people named Svensson, about 1 in 121 residents.
- How common is Svensson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Svensson is the 9th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Svensson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/svenssonThe 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, “Svensson” — the 9th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.