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Swedish names

Girls' and boys' names from Sweden with their meaning and origin, how to say them, and how many babies got each name each year from 1998 to 2022.

Most popular baby names in 2022

Girls

Top 100
  1. 1Astrid603 babies
  2. 2Alma595 babies
  3. 3Ella547 babies
  4. 4Alice539 babies
  5. 5Selma538 babies
  6. 6Vera537 babies
  7. 7Elsa526 babies
  8. 8Olivia485 babies
  9. 9Stella482 babies
  10. 10Freja472 babies

Boys

Top 100
  1. 1Liam677 babies
  2. 2William674 babies
  3. 3Hugo643 babies
  4. 4Noah624 babies
  5. 5Nils576 babies
  6. 6Oliver575 babies
  7. 7Adam552 babies
  8. 8August550 babies
  9. 9Leo540 babies
  10. 10Elias531 babies

Each spelling counted on its own, as in SCB's table. Source: Statistics Sweden.

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1,738 names

Babies: named in 2022. People: everyone in Sweden with it as the first name they use, 2020. Source: Statistics Sweden.

Names on the way up

Babies per year in 2020–2022, against 2015–2017.

Girls

  1. 1Alba59 → 227 a year
  2. 2Ayla49 → 134 a year
  3. 3Hedda139 → 363 a year
  4. 4Mila142 → 364 a year
  5. 5Lovelia25 → 64 a year
  6. 6Bonnie82 → 204 a year

Boys

  1. 1Björn57 → 189 a year
  2. 2Lias29 → 91 a year
  3. 3Vince32 → 100 a year
  4. 4Frans180 → 472 a year
  5. 5Matteo105 → 274 a year
  6. 6Ted93 → 240 a year

Names going out of fashion

Girls

  1. 1Greta157 → 36 a year
  2. 2Amanda221 → 96 a year
  3. 3Felicia248 → 117 a year
  4. 4Matilda171 → 84 a year
  5. 5Linnea269 → 133 a year
  6. 6Moa237 → 119 a year

Boys

  1. 1Simon194 → 84 a year
  2. 2Kevin240 → 109 a year
  3. 3Anton318 → 148 a year
  4. 4Viktor242 → 119 a year
  5. 5Victor187 → 93 a year

The most common names in Sweden

Counting everyone living in Sweden at the end of 2020, not just babies, the classics still lead.

Women

  1. 1Anna97,287 people
  2. 2Maria82,731 people
  3. 3Eva79,365 people
  4. 4Karin60,039 people
  5. 5Lena55,301 people
  6. 6Emma50,468 people
  7. 7Kerstin47,564 people
  8. 8Sara44,668 people
  9. 9Malin40,340 people
  10. 10Ingrid40,300 people

Men

  1. 1Lars83,360 people
  2. 2Anders76,812 people
  3. 3Johan73,657 people
  4. 4Peter61,624 people
  5. 5Jan57,832 people
  6. 6Daniel56,676 people
  7. 7Mikael56,053 people
  8. 8Erik55,968 people
  9. 9Per55,952 people
  10. 10Fredrik51,755 people

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Surnames

Sweden's sixteen most common surnames all end in -son, the trace of an old naming habit. See the most common Swedish surnames and what they mean.

Learn to say them like a Swede

Names are often the first Swedish words you need. Our free course starts with introductions (Hej, jag heter…) and the sounds that make Swedish names tricky, like å, ä, ö and the soft k. Start with the free lessons, or try typing names with the Swedish keyboard tool.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most popular Swedish names?

Among babies named in 2022, the most popular girls' names were Astrid, Alma, Ella, Alice, Selma, and the most popular boys' names were Liam, William, Hugo, Noah, Nils. Among everyone living in Sweden, the most common names are older ones: Anna, Maria, Eva for women and Lars, Anders, Johan for men.

Why do the figures stop at 2022?

Statistics Sweden (SCB) published Sweden's name statistics as open data until it stopped producing them in 2024. Its last figures cover babies named in 2022 and the population at the end of 2020. Newer figures are published by the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), but not under an open licence we can reuse here.

Where do the meanings come from?

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, which records the origin of many names with sources. We only show an origin when Wiktionary has one, and we link to the entry. Where a name has no sourced origin, the page says so rather than guessing.

What does 'the first name they use' mean?

Swedes often have two or three first names but go by one of them, called the tilltalsnamn. SCB counts that name, so a man registered as Karl Johan Erik who goes by Johan counts as a Johan.

How do you pronounce Swedish names?

With Swedish spelling rules. J is said like the English y (Johan, Jonas). G and k before e, i, y, ä and ö usually soften: Göran starts with a y sound and Kerstin with a soft 'ch' sound. Å sounds close to the vowel in 'more'. Every name page has a Listen button, using a native speaker's recording where one exists.

Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.

Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.