Sverri
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2007
/sʋærrɪ/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Sverri is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Denmark. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Sverrir (the wild one).
- FOFaroe Islands
- DKDenmark
- USUnited States
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.
How to pronounce Sverri
- Norwegian:/sʋærrɪ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old NorseSverrirthe wild one(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*swer-“to hiss“to hiss, ring, whistle”(inferred from the name graph)via Sverrir
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Old Norse Sverrir (the wild one).
Cited for this meaning 2
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sverri 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 Faroese, a male given name, compare Norwegian Sverre
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)- Sverri Dahlb. 1910FOFaroe antiquarian
- Sverri Dahlb. 1954NOFaroe Islands-born Norwegian singer and musician
- Sverri Sandberg Nielsenb. 1993FOFaroese/Danish rower
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sverri mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Sverrir (the wild one). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Sverri?
- In Norwegian /sʋærrɪ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sverri a male or female name?
- Sverri is a male 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.
- In which country does Sverri have the most bearers?
- Sverri is most frequently recorded in Denmark.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sverriThe 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, “Sverri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.