Names of Sweden
1,766,688 births across 350 recorded names, 1998 to 2022.
Top of 2022
Common here, rare in America
Names Sweden gives often that the US records barely hold.
| Name | In Sweden | In the US |
|---|---|---|
| Valter | 6,883 | not recorded |
| Tilde | 6,791 | not recorded |
| Melker | 6,740 | not recorded |
| Malte | 6,556 | not recorded |
| Hampus | 6,462 | not recorded |
| Josefin | 5,289 | not recorded |
| Meja | 5,121 | not recorded |
| Loke | 3,975 | not recorded |
| Vilgot | 3,573 | not recorded |
| Sigge | 3,485 | not recorded |
| Pontus | 3,290 | not recorded |
| Måns | 2,381 | not recorded |
| Lykke | 2,282 | not recorded |
| Svante | 1,551 | not recorded |
| Ture | 1,060 | not recorded |
US figures are Social Security births since 1880; the Sweden figures cover 1998 onwards. The two are not the same measure and the columns are for comparison of scale, not subtraction.
Most given since 1998
Source: Statistics Sweden, table TAB619. The 100 most popular tilltalsnamn - the one given name a person actually goes by - of each year. SCB merges spellings, counting them together under the most common one, so a name here covers more than the single spelling shown. The series ends at 2022; SCB stopped producing name statistics after it.