Johansson
surname · Swedish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Johansson is a surname, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swedish and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Johan, Scandinavian form of John.
- SESweden1 in 49◐
- FIFinland1 in 283
- NONorway1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈241K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 252 ●
- 1 in 49 ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
132K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
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●
patronymic from the personal name Johan, Scandinavian form of John.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
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 | #2 | 209,107 | 112K rec. | 1 in 49 | 209K | Johansson | 213 |
| FI Finland | #54 | 19,691△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 283 | 20K | Johansson | 59 |
| NO Norway | #133 | 4,974△ | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 5K | Johansson | 72 |
| US United States | — | 2,698 | 12K rec. | 1 in 123K | 2.8K | Johansson | 252 |
| DK Denmark | #190 | 2,264△ | 616 rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 2.3K | Johansson | 101 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,787 | 773 rec. | — | — | Johansson | 76 |
| BJ Benin | #5 | 743 | 747 rec. | — | — | Johansson | 9 |
| AX Åland Islands | #5 | 507△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 52 | 507 | Johansson | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | 492 | 447 rec. | — | — | Johansson | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 476 | 1K rec. | 1 in 105K | 476 | Johansson | 54 |
| PL Poland | — | 273 | — | 1 in 140K | 273 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 213 | 133 rec. | 1 in 39K | 213 | Johansson | 30 |
Roughly 209K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 49). 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●
- Swedish157K48%
- Finnish75K23%
- English31K9%
- Norwegian11K3%
- Danish8.7K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swedish | 157,320 | 48% |
| Finnish | 75,367 | 23% |
| English | 30,897 | 9% |
| Norwegian | 10,541 | 3% |
| Danish | 8,661 | 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●
Johansson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 2,432 |
| 2019 | 2,406 |
| 2020 | 2,415 |
| 2021 | 2,432 |
| 2022 | 2,429 |
| 2023 | 2,459 |
| 2024 | 2,464 |
| 2025 | 2,487 |
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●
- Eino Kailab. 1890FInot in their usual nameFinnish philosopher and psychologist (1890–1958)
- Lennart Johanssonb. 1929SEindustrialist, Swedish football administrator, president of UEFA (1990 - 2007)
- Ingemar Johanssonb. 1932SESwedish boxer (1932-2009)
- Kristina Waybornb. 1950SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress-model
- Jens Johanssonb. 1963SESwedish keyboardist
- Ylva Johanssonb. 1964SESwedish politician
- Paul Johanssonb. 1964USCanadian actor
- Thomas Johanssonb. 1975SESwedish tennis player
- Annie Lööfb. 1983SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician and party leader of the Swedish Center Party, former minister of enterprise
- Scarlett Johanssonb. 1984USAmerican actress (born 1984)
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 91 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Johansson?
- We estimate roughly 241 thousand people bear Johansson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Johansson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 209 thousand people bear Johansson in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled johansson.
- Where is Johansson most common?
- Johansson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 people carrying it.
- How common is Johansson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Johansson is the 2nd most common surname of 135,489 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Johansson mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Johan, Scandinavian form of John.
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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, “Johansson” — the 2nd most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.