Wahlin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɑɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wahlin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 932K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 11K
- NONorway1 in 171K
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
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
916 people
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wahlin 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.
916 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling wåhlin. 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); 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)
- Bertil Wahlinb. 1917SESwedish botanist (1917-2007)
- Irene Wahlinb. 1939SESwedish writer
- Mikael Wahlinb. 1960SESwedish organist
- Nina Wahlinb. 1968SESwedish politician
- Elisabeth Wahlinb. 1980NONorwegian association football player
- Lotta Wahlinb. 1983SESwedish golfer
- Hanna Wahlinb. 1997SESwedish association football player
- Åke Wahlinb. 2000SEresearcher
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 474 | #1,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 364 | #59,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 357 | #57,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 332 | #57,406 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #33,478 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #65,916 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Wahlin?
- A machine transcription gives /wɑɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wahlin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 916 people named Wahlin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wahlin.
- Where is Wahlin most common?
- Wahlin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wahlin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 916 people named Wahlin, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wahlin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wahlinThe 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, “Wahlin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.