Swedish boys' names

Top 100 boys' names in 2022

Babies named in 2022, with the number five years earlier for comparison.

Rising boys' names

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

• Björn57 → 189 a year
• Lias29 → 91 a year
• Vince32 → 100 a year
• Frans180 → 472 a year
• Matteo105 → 274 a year
• Ted93 → 240 a year
• Otis63 → 141 a year
• Rio29 → 62 a year
• Bill54 → 115 a year
• Dante117 → 226 a year

Boys' names from Old Norse

Names Wiktionary traces back to Old Norse, the language of the Viking Age. Most common first.

• Erik

  From Old Norse Eiríkr, from Proto-Norse *Aiwa-rikiaʀ (literally “ever ruler”).

• Peter

  From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).

• Björn

  From Old Norse Bjǫrn, from bjǫrn (“bear”), with identical meaning in modern Swedish.

• Bo

  From Old Norse Búi (“dweller, long-time resident”), originally a medieval byname.

• Magnus

  A Latinization of Old Norse Magni, influenced by Latin magnus (“great”).

• Karl

  From Old Norse Karl, from karl (“free man”), originally a nickname.

• Arvid

  Old Swedish Arnvidh, Arvidh, from Old Norse Arnviðr.

• Leif

  From Norwegian Leif, from Old Norse Leifr.

• Sven

  Inherited from Old Norse Sveinn; borne by three medieval kings of Denmark.

• Ulf

  From Old Norse Úlfr, from úlfr (“wolf”).

• Gustav

  From Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geats”) + stafr (“staff”) The oldest record in Sweden dates back to the year 1225 ("Gostauus").

• Kjell

  From Old Norse Ketill, from ketill (“(sacrificial) cauldron", "helmet”) and short for names containing this element.

• Håkan

  From Old Norse Hákon.

• Rolf

  From Old Norse Hrólfr.

• Stig

  From Old Norse Stígr.

• Ebbe

  From Danish, shortened from Esbjørn (from Old Norse Ásbjǫrn) and Enbjørn (from Old Norse Arnbjørn).

• Gunnar

  From Old Norse Gunnarr.

• Vidar

  From Old Norse Víðarr, from víðr (“wide”) + herr (“army”).

• Sixten

  From Old Norse sigr (“victory”) + steinn (“stone”).

• Åke

  From Old Norse Áki, diminutive of Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛉ (*anuʀ, “ancestor”), from Proto-Germanic *anô (as in the first part of the name Olaf).

• Olof

  From Old Swedish Olāver, Olēf, from Old Norse Óláfr, from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛚᚨᛁᛒᚨᛉ (*anulaibaʀ).

• Ture

  From Old Swedish Thūre, Thūrir, from Old Norse Þórir.

• Ivar

  From Old Norse Ívarr.

• Loke

  From Old Norse Loki.

• Dan

  From Old Norse Danr (“a Dane”).

• Hjalmar

  From Old Norse Hjalmarr, from hjalmr (“helmet”) + herr (“army”).

• Arne

  Old Norse Arni.

• Folke

  Old Norse Folki, short form of names beginning with the element Folk- "people"; cognate to a medieval English given name surviving in the surnames Fulk, Fulke, Fawkes etc.

• Torbjörn

  Old Norse Þórbjǫrn (“Thor" + "bear”), with an identical meaning in modern Swedish.

• Knut

  From Old Norse Knútr, cognate with Danish Knud and English Canute.

The most common men's names in Sweden

Everyone living in Sweden at the end of 2020, by the first name they go by.

1. 1Lars83,360
2. 2Anders76,812
3. 3Johan73,657
4. 4Peter61,624
5. 5Jan57,832
6. 6Daniel56,676
7. 7Mikael56,053
8. 8Erik55,968
9. 9Per55,952
10. 10Fredrik51,755
11. 11Hans45,262
12. 12Andreas43,896
13. 13Stefan43,746
14. 14Magnus41,642
15. 15Mats40,842
16. 16Jonas40,186
17. 17Bengt39,590
18. 18Alexander39,052
19. 19Martin39,027
20. 20Thomas37,722
21. 21Bo37,535
22. 22Karl36,689
23. 23Nils35,687
24. 24Björn34,656
25. 25Leif33,083
26. 26David32,606
27. 27Emil31,798
28. 28Ulf31,585
29. 29Sven31,115
30. 30Simon30,970
31. 31Henrik30,588
32. 32Mattias30,240
33. 33Marcus29,666
34. 34Anton28,256
35. 35Patrik27,947
36. 36Robert27,200
37. 37William27,145
38. 38Kjell26,700
39. 39Joakim26,270
40. 40Håkan25,508
41. 41Tommy24,809
42. 42Göran24,544
43. 43Christer24,440
44. 44Adam24,406
45. 45Carl24,070
46. 46Rolf23,330
47. 47Lennart22,976
48. 48Robin22,667
49. 49Niklas22,408
50. 50Oscar22,384

Names used for both girls and boys

Names where girls and women, or boys and men, make up at least one in ten of the people and recent babies with the name.

• Kim
• Nour
• Isa
• Jasmin
• Alaa
• Kari
• Mika
• Lo
• Iman
• Noor
• Nikola
• Rayan
• Jean
• Farah
• Dana
• Nikita
• Amar
• Alexis
• Ayan
• Marian

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