Wahlgren
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɑɫɡɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wahlgren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Wahlgren, from vall (“pasture”) + gren (“branch”). Compare Wallgren.
- SESweden1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 510K
- BJBenin≈1 in 8.3K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,368 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
- SwedishWahlgren(measured from records)
- Swedish rootvall“pasture”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Swedish Wahlgren, from vall (“pasture”) + gren (“branch”). Compare Wallgren.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wahlgren 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 | #349 | 2,368 | 1 in 4.3K | 2.4K | Wahlgren | 84 |
| BJ Benin | #583 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Wahlgren | 4 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Wahlgren | 1 |
| US United States | — | 652 | 1 in 510K | 652 | Wahlgren | 184 |
| FI Finland | — | 124 | 1 in 45K | 124 | Wahlgren | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 124 | 1 in 44K | 124 | Wahlgren | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 70 | 1 in 84K | 70 | Wahlgren | 24 |
2,368 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
- Christina Schollinb. 1937SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Anders Wahlgrenb. 1946SESwedish screenwriter
- Niclas Wahlgrenb. 1965SESwedish singer
- Lars-Anders Wahlgrenb. 1966SESwedish tennis player
- Pernilla Wahlgrenb. 1967SESwedish singer, actress and presenter
- Anneli Wahlgrenb. 1971SESwedish association football player
- Laila Baggeb. 1972SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer, manager and songwriter
- Linus Wahlgrenb. 1976SESwedish actor
- Kari Wahlgrenb. 1977USAmerican voice actress
- Bianca Ingrossob. 1994SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and influencer
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.4K | #437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 652 | #34,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 634 | #37,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 608 | #35,106 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 124 | #12,536 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 124 | #10,881 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 70 | #7,798 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 66 | — |
| 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
- What does the name Wahlgren mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Wahlgren, from vall (“pasture”) + gren (“branch”). Compare Wallgren. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Wahlgren?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɑɫɡɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wahlgren have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Wahlgren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wahlgren.
- Where is Wahlgren most common?
- Wahlgren is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wahlgren?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,368 people named Wahlgren, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Wahlgren compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Wahlgren is the 349th most common surname of 187,334 surnames 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/wahlgrenThe 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, “Wahlgren” — the 349th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.