Eriksson
surname · Swedish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eriksson is a surname, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swedish and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a common surname originating as a patronymic.
- SESweden1 in 87◐
- FIFinland1 in 432
- NONorway1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈137K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 198 ●
- 1 in 32 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
80K records
Official registry-verified
Åland Islands
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a common surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 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 | #5 | 117,777 | 71K rec. | 1 in 87 | 118K | Eriksson | 175 |
| FI Finland | #114 | 12,910△ | 813 rec. | 1 in 432 | 13K | Eriksson | 51 |
| NO Norway | #248 | 2,912△ | 906 rec. | 1 in 1.9K | 2.9K | Eriksson | 56 |
| US United States | — | 1,185 | 5.3K rec. | 1 in 281K | 1.3K | Eriksson | 198 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,020 | 472 rec. | — | — | Eriksson | 67 |
| AX Åland Islands | #2 | 813△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 32 | 813 | Eriksson | 13 |
| DK Denmark | #856 | 500△ | 190 rec. | 1 in 12K | 500 | Eriksson | 69 |
| BJ Benin | #22 | 346 | 350 rec. | — | — | Eriksson | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 269 | 253 rec. | — | — | Eriksson | 38 |
| ES Spain | — | 268 | 280 rec. | 1 in 187K | 268 | Eriksson | 41 |
| PL Poland | — | 166 | — | 1 in 231K | 166 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 145△ | 60 rec. | 1 in 58K | 145 | Eriksson | 24 |
Roughly 118K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 87). 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●
- Swedish91K46%
- Finnish56K29%
- English17K9%
- Norwegian4.5K2%
- Spanish3.1K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swedish | 90,620 | 46% |
| Finnish | 56,393 | 29% |
| English | 16,825 | 9% |
| Norwegian | 4,492 | 2% |
| Spanish | 3,102 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,398 |
| 2019 | 1,385 |
| 2020 | 1,396 |
| 2021 | 1,399 |
| 2022 | 1,399 |
| 2023 | 1,413 |
| 2024 | 1,440 |
| 2025 | 1,456 |
NO SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) — 8 years between 2018–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Magnus IV of Swedenb. 1316SEnot in their usual nameKing of Sweden and Norway (1316–1374)
- Sven-Göran Erikssonb. 1948SESwedish football manager (1948–2024)
- Kjell Erikssonb. 1953SESwedish writer
- Peter Erikssonb. 1958SESwedish politician
- Jan Erikssonb. 1967SESwedish footballer
- Jonas Erikssonb. 1974SESwedish football referee
- Sebastian Erikssonb. 1989SESwedish footballer
- Magnus Erikssonb. 1990SESwedish footballer
- Magdalena Erikssonb. 1993SESwedish footballer
- Felicia Erikssonb. 2001SESwedish singer (born 2001)
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 82 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eriksson?
- We estimate roughly 137 thousand people bear Eriksson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eriksson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 118 thousand people bear Eriksson in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eriksson.
- Where is Eriksson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eriksson is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 32 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Eriksson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Eriksson is the 5th most common surname of 135,489 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Eriksson mean?
- Recorded meaning: a common 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eriksson” — the 5th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.