Swedish girls' names

Top 100 girls' names in 2022

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

Rising girls' names

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

• Alba59 → 227 a year
• Ayla49 → 134 a year
• Hedda139 → 363 a year
• Mila142 → 364 a year
• Lovelia25 → 64 a year
• Bonnie82 → 204 a year
• Lou31 → 67 a year
• Ilse90 → 178 a year
• Billie34 → 65 a year
• Flora53 → 100 a year

Girls' names from Old Norse

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

• Ingrid

  From Old Norse Ingiríðr.

• Astrid

  Inherited from Old Swedish Astrīþ, from Runic Swedish Asfriþ, from Old Norse Ástríðr.

• Signe

  From Old Norse Signý.

• Åsa

  From Old Norse Ása, short form of female compound names beginning with the element áss, óss (“god”).

• Siv

  From Old Norse Sif.

• Sigrid

  From Old Norse Sigríðr.

• Gun

  From Old Norse Gunnr, short form of female compound names with the element gunnr (“battle”).

• Tyra

  A Latinized form of Old Danish Thyrvi, from Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) and a second element of debated meaning.

• Ylva

  From Old Norse ylfa, a feminine equivalent of Old Norse Ulfr and Swedish Ulf.

• Inga

  From Old Norse Inga.

• Gerd

  From Old Norse Gerðr.

• Gudrun

  From Old Norse Guðrún.

• Gunvor

  From Old Norse Gunnvǫr.

• Ingegerd

  Old Norse Ingigerðr, from Ing-, ("the god Ing/Yngvi") and gerðr, garðr ("protection").

• Eivor

  From Old Norse Eyvǫr, from a first part probably meaning "luck" ( same as in Eivind) + vǫr (“careful”).

• Disa

  From Old Norse Dísa, short form of names containing the element dís (“minor goddess”).

• Gunhild

  From Old Swedish Gunhild, from Old Norse Gunnhildr.

• Embla

  From Old Norse Embla.

• Hjördis

  Name of the mother of Sigurd in the Edda; from Old Norse Hjǫrdís.

• Tora

  From Old Norse.

• Dagny

  From Old Norse Dagný.

• Helga

  From Old Swedish Hiælgha, Hælgha, from Old Norse Helga.

• Gunborg

  Old Norse Gunnbjǫrg, from gunnr "battle" + bjǫrg "salvation".

• Ragnhild

  From Old Swedish Ragnilder, from Old Norse Ragnhildr, from Ragn- (“counsel”) + hildr (“battle”).

• Majvor

  An early 20th century coinage from Maj + the Old Norse element -vor as in Eivor.

• Ingeborg

  From Old Norse Ingibjǫrg.

• Thyra

  A Latinized form of Old Danish Thyrvi, from Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) and a second element of debated meaning.

• Nanna

  From Old Norse Nanna, with Norse levelling of -nþ- to -nn- from Proto-Germanic *nanþ- (“brave, daring”), related to *ninþaną (“to dare”).

• Gerda

  Latinate variant of Gerd, from Old Norse Gerðr.

• Ingvor

  Old Norse Yngvǫr, from the god Ing/Yngvi and varr ("careful").

The most common women's names in Sweden

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

1. 1Anna97,287
2. 2Maria82,731
3. 3Eva79,365
4. 4Karin60,039
5. 5Lena55,301
6. 6Emma50,468
7. 7Kerstin47,564
8. 8Sara44,668
9. 9Malin40,340
10. 10Ingrid40,300
11. 11Linda38,125
12. 12Elin37,161
13. 13Birgitta37,103
14. 14Marie36,678
15. 15Inger34,316
16. 16Johanna33,976
17. 17Hanna32,142
18. 18Sofia31,234
19. 19Annika30,923
20. 20Ulla30,546
21. 21Julia30,461
22. 22Susanne30,387
23. 23Jenny29,979
24. 24Carina29,589
25. 25Ida28,637
26. 26Christina28,287
27. 27Helena27,261
28. 28Åsa26,936
29. 29Kristina26,598
30. 30Camilla25,787
31. 31Gunilla25,611
32. 32Sandra24,988
33. 33Anita24,723
34. 34Monica24,574
35. 35Amanda24,520
36. 36Cecilia23,274
37. 37Emelie21,909
38. 38Margareta21,832
39. 39Jessica21,688
40. 40Frida21,659
41. 41Elsa21,142
42. 42Alice21,141
43. 43Barbro21,048
44. 44Marianne20,479
45. 45Lisa20,112
46. 46Elisabeth19,725
47. 47Siv19,532
48. 48Maja19,232
49. 49Ulrika19,135
50. 50Anette19,123

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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