Most Common Swedish Last Names

Chances are, you’ve heard Swedish last names before. If you have, you might have notice that they are very easily identifiable, because almost one third of Swedish last names end in the suffix -son.

It’s not surprising that of the most popular Swedish surnames, the majority of them are -son ending names. There is a very good reason for this.

What do Swedish Surnames Endings Mean?

So, what does this mean? Well, last names ending in -son are a patronymic. A patronymic is when the first name of the father is used as part of the surname of the child. Take, for example, Karlsson. The fathers name would be Karl, so the patronymic surname would be Karlsson, meaning Son of Karl.

Now, that explains a third of Swedish last names. The rest are made up of words relating to nature. The most commonly used words in Swedish names are as follows, with their meaning.

Ström – stream
Berg – mountain/hill
Ek – oak
Sjö – lake/sea
Sund – sea gate/strait
Å – small stream/creek
Ö – island
Björk – birch
Ny – new
Söder – south
Lund – small forrest
Gren – branch
Fors – cataract
Vik – bay
Holm – little island
Qvist/Kvist – twig

So, take a look at the top 100 Swedish last names, and see if you can figure out what they mean, using the information we have provided above.

List of the 100 Most Common Last Names in Sweden

Most popular Swedish surnames in descending order.

1. Andersson
2. Johansson
3. Karlsson
4. Nilsson
5. Eriksson
6. Larsson
7. Olsson
8. Persson
9. Svensson
10. Gustafsson
11. Pettersson
12. Jonsson
13. Jansson
14. Hansson
15. Bengtsson
16. Jönsson
17. Lindberg
18. Jakobsson
19. Magnusson
20. Olofsson
21. Lindström
22. Lindqvist
23. Lindgren
24. Axelsson
25. Berg
26. Bergström
27. Lundberg
28. Lundgren
29. Lind
30. Lundqvist
31. Mattsson
32. Berglund
33. Fredriksson
34. Sandberg
35. Henriksson
36. Forsberg
37. Sjöberg
38. Wallin
39. Engström
40. Eklund
41. Danielsson
42. Håkansson
43. Lundin
44. Gunnarsson
45. Björk
46. Bergman
47. Holm
48. Samuelsson
49. Fransson
50. Wikström
51. Isaksson
52. Bergqvist
53. Nyström
54. Arvidsson
55. Holmberg
56. Löfgren
57. Ali
58. Söderberg
59. Mohamed
60. Nyberg
61. Blomqvist
62. Claesson
63. Mårtensson
64. Nordström
65. Lundström
66. Eliasson
67. Pålsson
68. Viklund
69. Björklund
70. Berggren
71. Sandström
72. Lund
73. Nordin
74. Ström
75. Åberg
76. Hermansson
77. Ekström
78. Holmgren
79. Hedlund
80. Falk
81. Sundberg
82. Dahlberg
83. Hellström
84. Sjögren
85. Abrahamsson
86. Ek
87. Blom
88. Martinsson
89. Öberg
90. Ahmed
91. Andreasson
92. Hassan
93. Månsson
94. Strömberg
95. Åkesson
96. Hansen
97. Jonasson
98. Norberg
99. Åström
100. Sundström

These names are the most common last names in Sweden, as of December 2019.

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