Swensson
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/swɛnssən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Swensson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 71K
- NONorway1 in 85K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
214 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Swensson 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 214 | 1 in 1.6M | 228 | Swensson | 133 |
| BR Brazil | 207 | 1 in 1M | 207 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 144 | 1 in 71K | 144 | Swensson | 34 |
| DE Germany | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Swensson | 32 |
| NO Norway | 64 | 1 in 85K | 64 | Swensson | 6 |
| AT Austria | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Swensson | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 23 | 1 in 255K | 23 | Swensson | 9 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 402K | — | Swensson | 1 |
214 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Axel Swenssonb. 1837SESwedish musician
- Alma Lind Swenssonb. 1859Lutheran musician and churchwoman
- Eva Gustafva Axelina Svenssonb. 1864SEnot in their usual nameactor
- Frithiof Swenssonb. 1873SESwedish architect
- Hugo Swenssonb. 1879SESwedish writer
- Signe Swenssonb. 1888NONorwegian politician (1888-1974)
- Nils Victor Swenssonb. 1896NONorwegian politician and physician
- Carin Swenssonb. 1905SESwedish actress and singer (1905-1990)
- Olof Swenssonb. 1920SESwedish architect
- Egbert Swenssonb. 1956DEEast German sailor
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 228 | #87,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 214 | #86,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 211 | #83,004 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 207 | #35,763 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 144 | #5,430 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 64 | #21,934 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23 | #20,438 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Swensson?
- A machine transcription gives /swɛnssən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Swensson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 214 people named Swensson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled swensson.
- Where is Swensson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Swensson is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 71 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Swensson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 214 people named Swensson in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Swensson?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/swenssonThe 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, “Swensson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.