Names of Åland Islands AX

ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) records Anna as the commonest given name in the Åland Islands and Karlsson as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish the Åland Islands from the rest of the world are Eriksson, Jansson and Johansson.

Written in Swedish.

Population
26K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
310
ABuilt from 1 official register (2025), 310 name forms in our corpus, 9 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Åland Islands are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Åland Islands included.

How names work in Åland Islands

Names in Åland Islands follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Åland Islands

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames), 2025 — 50 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Anna298—
2Maria277—
3Eva211—
4Linda145—
5Inger13980
6Kerstin13583
7Johanna12879
8Emma118—
9Elin110122
10Jenny108—
11Hanna107—
11Siv107123
13Camilla104—
14Sara102—
14Sofia102—
16Ida101—
17Malin99130
18Pia88151
19Nina87—
20Gun86—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) 2025Across all recordsanna: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. annanot rankedmaria: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. marianot rankedeva: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. evanot rankedlinda: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. lindanot rankedinger: 5 → 80 · ranks lower across all records5. inger80kerstin: 6 → 83 · ranks lower across all records6. kerstin83johanna: 7 → 79 · ranks lower across all records7. johanna79emma: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. emmanot rankedelin: 9 → 122 · ranks lower across all records9. elin122jenny: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. jennynot rankedhanna: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. hannanot rankedsiv: 11 → 123 · ranks lower across all records11. siv123camilla: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. camillanot rankedsara: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. saranot rankedsofia: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. sofianot rankedida: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. idanot rankedmalin: 17 → 130 · ranks lower across all records17. malin130pia: 18 → 151 · ranks lower across all records18. pia151nina: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. ninanot rankedgun: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. gunnot rankedåsa: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. åsanot rankedjulia: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. julianot rankedannika: 23 → 156 · ranks lower across all records23. annika156lena: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. lenanot rankedulla: 25 → 162 · ranks lower across all records25. ulla162
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames), 2025 on the left; every record we hold for Åland Islands on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Åland Islands

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Åland Islands holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Lars
Sized by how much of the difference between Åland Islands's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Karlssonsurname●
Erikssonsurname●
Janssonsurname●
Johanssonsurname●
Anderssonsurname●
The best-attested names in Åland Islands, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames)2025headline

    Ålands statistik- och utredningsbyrå (ÅSUB). Counts: residents. given and surname. 50 forms. 2025. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    ÅSUB table BE57 "Förnamn och efternamn" — the 50 most common female first names, 50 most common male first names, and 50 most common surnames among the resident population of the Åland Islands as of 31.12.2025, WITH PERSON COUNTS (antal personer) and rank. Stock-of-population counts (not births). Spellings are standardised (variants merged) and double surnames counted to the first element. Excel downloads directly (no Cloudflare). Normalized 150 rows (50 F given, 50 M given, 50 surname). The narrative namnstatistik-2020 page presents the same data as PNG images; the live BE57 xlsx (linked from node/13885) carries the machine-readable figures. Åland is a Finnish autonomous region with its own statistics bureau; this is Åland-specific official data. SWEEP 2026-08-06: checked for a live per-name query tool beyond the BE57 top-50 table already catalogued here — none found on asub.ax. Åland maintains its own population register (not covered by mainland Finland's DVV name-lookup service); ÅSUB publishes only the ranked top-50 aggregate, with no per-name search box.

    Last verified 2026-06-09.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Åland Islands?
Anna, according to ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) (2025), with 298 bearers recorded among girls.
What is the most common surname in Åland Islands?
Karlsson, according to ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) (2025), with 1,080 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Åland Islands?
Because they count different people. ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Anna. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Lars. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Åland Islands”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/AX (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames).