Short Swedish Boy Names
Swedish names range from northern classics to forms shared with the rest of Europe. Every spelling here has five letters or fewer, making the written length easy to compare. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 8,748#15 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 262#907 | Down 306 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 203#1,068 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 1934 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 80#1,936 | Down 134 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 124#1,443 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1962 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 280#861 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 505#581 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1882. | 293#841 | Up 303 rank positions in five years | 1948 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Swedish as Sören; in U.S. records from 1912. | 665#464 | Up 45 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1972. | 37#3,201 | Down 758 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2002. | 40#3,084 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1907. | —Unranked | — | 1929 | ||
Recorded in Swedish as Jöran; in U.S. records from 1979. | —Unranked | — | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1936. | —Unranked | — | 1956 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2007. | 7#10,335 | Up 1,193 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Swedish-rooted name; in U.S. records from 2008. | —Unranked | — | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1891. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2014. | 5#12,103 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1934. | —Unranked | — | 1934 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1982. | —Unranked | — | 1982 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.