Schweden
surname · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Schweden is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sweden.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M◐
- ATAustria1 in 43K
- NLNetherlands1 in 184K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈222 ●
- Sources
- 90 ●
- 1 in 184K ◐
across 4 countries
2.3K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Sweden in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more.
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●
Sweden
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 4 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | 544 | 437 rec. | — | — | Schweden | 52 |
| GB United Kingdom | 320 | 46 rec. | — | — | Sweden | 18 |
| AU Australia | 272 | 39 rec. | — | — | Sweden | 11 |
| AT Austria | 154 | 1 rec. | — | — | Sweden | 3 |
| US United States | 116 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 2.9M | 124 | Sweden | 90 |
| NL Netherlands | 94 | 200 rec. | 1 in 184K | 94 | Sweden | 26 |
| CA Canada | 69 | 38 rec. | — | — | Sweden | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 27 | 36 rec. | — | — | Sweden | 15 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 10 rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | Sweden | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 3 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | Sweden | 3 |
| DM Dominica | — | 0 rec. | — | 2 | — | 1 |
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Languages●
- German48086%
- Western Frisian254%
- English163%
- French122%
- Dutch122%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 480 | 86% |
| Western Frisian | 25 | 4% |
| English | 16 | 3% |
| French | 12 | 2% |
| Dutch | 12 | 2% |
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●
Schweden 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 German, Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Theresa SchwedenDEGerman Germanist
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 25 | #44,831 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #82,660 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Schweden?
- We estimate roughly 222 people bear Schweden (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Schweden have the most bearers?
- Schweden is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled schweden.
- What does the name Schweden mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sweden
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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, “Schweden”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.