Sverre
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sverre is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse.
- NONorway1 in 642◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 16K
- SESweden1 in 17K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈10K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 9 ●
- 1 in 642 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
17 records
Official registry-verified
Norway
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 male given name from Old Norse
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 8,517△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 642 | 29K | Sverre | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,055△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 606 | 0 rec. | 1 in 17K | 606 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 145 | — | 1 in 40K | 145 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 38 | 0 rec. | 1 in 147K | 97 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 3 | — | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | — | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | 0 rec. | — | 57 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 4 rec. | — | 5 | — | 2 |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 8.5K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 642). 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●
- Norwegian Bokmål29K62%
- Norwegian6.2K14%
- English2.9K6%
- Western Frisian1.9K4%
- Dutch9542%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 28,600 | 62% |
| Norwegian | 6,223 | 14% |
| English | 2,899 | 6% |
| Western Frisian | 1,852 | 4% |
| Dutch | 954 | 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●
Sverre 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 Swedish, Sverre är ett nordiskt namn, fornvästnordiskt Sverrir, ursprungligen ett binamn med betydelsen ’bråkstake’, bildat till stammen i det nynorska verbet sverra ’virvla runt, svinga’. Namnet har burits av den norske kungen Sverre Sigurdsson (död 1202) och är betydligt vanligare i Norge än i Sverige även idag. En känd namnbärare är den norske prinsen Sverre Magnus (f. 2005).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Norwegian: from the Old Norse personal name Sverrir , originally apparently a byname for a wild or restless person, and connected with the dialectal term sverra to spin, swing, swirl about.
as a word
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 |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 232 |
| 1946 | 247 |
| 1947 | 251 |
| 1948 | 221 |
| 1949 | 211 |
| 1950 | 178 |
| 1951 | 178 |
| 1952 | 161 |
| 1953 | 151 |
| 1954 | 147 |
| 1955 | 137 |
| 1956 | 138 |
| 1957 | 115 |
| 1958 | 126 |
| 1959 | 123 |
| 1960 | 110 |
| 1961 | 100 |
| 1962 | 118 |
| 1963 | 112 |
| 1964 | 93 |
| 1965 | 107 |
| 1966 | 103 |
| 1967 | 110 |
| 1968 | 77 |
| 1969 | 94 |
| 1970 | 70 |
| 1971 | 80 |
| 1972 | 73 |
| 1973 | 88 |
| 1974 | 68 |
| 1975 | 89 |
| 1976 | 64 |
| 1977 | 51 |
| 1978 | 56 |
| 1979 | 56 |
| 1980 | 56 |
| 1981 | 65 |
| 1982 | 51 |
| 1983 | 53 |
| 1984 | 53 |
| 1985 | 45 |
| 1986 | 48 |
| 1987 | 32 |
| 1988 | 51 |
| 1989 | 64 |
| 1990 | 45 |
| 1991 | 49 |
| 1992 | 57 |
| 1993 | 53 |
| 1994 | 59 |
| 1995 | 62 |
| 1996 | 68 |
| 1997 | 45 |
| 1998 | 57 |
| 1999 | 38 |
| 2000 | 51 |
| 2001 | 46 |
| 2002 | 60 |
| 2003 | 54 |
| 2004 | 61 |
| 2005 | 42 |
| 2006 | 89 |
| 2007 | 103 |
| 2008 | 114 |
| 2009 | 131 |
| 2010 | 120 |
| 2011 | 124 |
| 2012 | 128 |
| 2013 | 138 |
| 2014 | 129 |
| 2015 | 139 |
| 2016 | 158 |
| 2017 | 149 |
| 2018 | 156 |
| 2019 | 153 |
| 2020 | 131 |
| 2021 | 149 |
| 2022 | 132 |
| 2023 | 160 |
| 2024 | 197 |
| 2025 | 188 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 81 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sverre of Norwayb. 1151NOking of Norway
- Sverre Hasselb. 1876NONorwegian Antarctic explorer (1876-1928)
- Sverre Petterssenb. 1898NONorwegian meteorologist (1898-1974)
- Bernt Evensenb. 1905NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian speed skater and racing cyclist (1905-1979)
- Sverre Hansenb. 1919NONorwegian actor (1919–1995)
- Sverre Fehnb. 1924NONorwegian architect (1924-2009)
- Sverre Stenersenb. 1926NONorwegian Nordic combined skier (1926-2005)
- Sverre Anker Ousdalb. 1944NONorwegian actor (1944–2026)
- Sverre Lunde Pedersenb. 1992NONorwegian speed skater
- Prince Sverre Magnus of Norwayb. 2005NONorwegian prince (born 2005)
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 208 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sverre?
- We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Sverre (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sverre have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 8.5 thousand people bear Sverre in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sverre.
- Where is Sverre most common?
- Sverre is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 642 people carrying it.
- Is Sverre a male or female name?
- Sverre is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Sverre mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse
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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, “Sverre”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.