Andersson
surname · Swedish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Andersson is a surname, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swedish and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic.
- SESweden1 in 48◐
- BJBenin1 in 284
- FIFinland1 in 400
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈236K ●
- Sources
- 221 ●
- 1 in 48 ◐
across 13 countries
160K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #1 | 211,085 | 131K rec. | 1 in 48 | 211K | Andersson | 212 |
| FI Finland | #101 | 13,921△ | 980 rec. | 1 in 400 | 14K | Andersson | 60 |
| NO Norway | #124 | 5,076△ | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 5.1K | Andersson | 71 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,820 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Andersson | 82 |
| DK Denmark | #146 | 2,731△ | 849 rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 2.7K | Andersson | 109 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,487 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Andersson | 87 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,287 | 2K rec. | — | — | Andersson | 91 |
| BJ Benin | #2 | 1,436 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Andersson | 10 |
| US United States | — | 1,372 | 14K rec. | 1 in 242K | 1.8K | Andersson | 221 |
| CA Canada | — | 609 | 575 rec. | — | 1 | Andersson | 42 |
| AR Argentina | — | 534△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 85K | 534 | — | 1 |
| AX Åland Islands | #6 | 483△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 54 | 483 | Andersson | 10 |
Roughly 211K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 48). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swedish167K54%
- Finnish53K17%
- English23K7%
- Danish11K3%
- Norwegian8.6K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swedish | 167,432 | 54% |
| Finnish | 53,350 | 17% |
| English | 23,033 | 7% |
| Danish | 10,698 | 3% |
| Norwegian | 8,617 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Andersson is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymische Bildung mit Genitiv-s und Doppel-s: -sson aus -s-son entstanden; schwedische Variante. 32 Types/3082 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname mit skandinavischer Doppel-s-Schreibung -sson; Bildung von Patronymen. Belegt: 3082.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 1 |
| 1976 | 3 |
| 1977 | 1 |
| 1979 | 1 |
| 1980 | 1 |
| 1982 | 1 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 2 |
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1986 | 3 |
| 1987 | 2 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 21 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 22 |
| 1998 | 27 |
| 1999 | 28 |
| 2000 | 25 |
| 2001 | 40 |
| 2002 | 59 |
| 2003 | 53 |
| 2004 | 46 |
| 2005 | 61 |
| 2006 | 62 |
| 2007 | 69 |
| 2008 | 77 |
| 2009 | 98 |
| 2010 | 91 |
| 2011 | 107 |
| 2012 | 88 |
| 2013 | 81 |
| 2014 | 67 |
| 2015 | 62 |
| 2016 | 64 |
| 2017 | 60 |
| 2018 | 47 |
| 2019 | 42 |
| 2020 | 27 |
| 2021 | 30 |
| 2022 | 19 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 10 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 48 years between 1975–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Johan Gunnar Anderssonb. 1874SESwedish archeologist and geologist (1874–1960)
- Stig Andersonb. 1931SEnot in their usual nameSwedish lyricist, music publisher, composer, music executive, manager for ABBA, teacher (1931-1997)
- Harriet Anderssonb. 1932SESwedish actress (born 1932)
- Bibi Anderssonb. 1935SESwedish actress (1935–2019)
- Roy Anderssonb. 1943SESwedish film director and screenwriter
- Benny Anderssonb. 1946SESwedish musician and composer
- Magdalena Anderssonb. 1967SEPrime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist
- Kennet Anderssonb. 1967SESwedish footballer
- Patrik Anderssonb. 1971SESwedish footballer
- Daniel Anderssonb. 1977SESwedish footballer and manager (born 1977)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 47 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 211K | #1 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 17K | #104 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 14K | #195 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5.1K | #156 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.6K | #3,436 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.1K | #4,557 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.1K | #1,735 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2.7K | #137 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 2.5K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 2.5K | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 206 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Andersson?
- We estimate roughly 236 thousand people bear Andersson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Andersson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 211 thousand people bear Andersson in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled andersson.
- Where is Andersson most common?
- Andersson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 48 people carrying it.
- How common is Andersson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Andersson is the most common surname of 135,489 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Andersson mean?
- Recorded meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Andersson” — the most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.