Swedish Boy Names
Swedish names range from northern classics to forms shared with the rest of Europe. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. 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. | 1,620#223 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1911. | 549#546 | Down 124 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 4,140#79 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 837#378 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 476#599 | Down 113 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1893. | 462#612 | Down 85 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1907. | 698#449 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1910. | 516#572 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1912. | 257#917 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1890. | 337#765 | Up 36 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1944. | 176#1,175 | Down 100 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1882. | 82#1,913 | Down 508 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Swedish as Björn; in U.S. records from 1925. | 298#829 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 14#6,156 | Down 166 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1935. | 206#1,060 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 9#8,319 | Down 2,320 rank positions in five years | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1975. | 163#1,233 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1911. | 31#3,644 | Down 1,183 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1998. | 186#1,140 | Up 531 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1893. | 47#2,724 | Up 2,179 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1979. | 38#3,153 | Up 1,038 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1915. | 52#2,561 | Down 518 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2001. | 90#1,789 | Up 1,540 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1962. | 14#6,411 | Down 2,507 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1970. | 36#3,302 | Up 3,683 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1924. | 17#5,459 | Down 1,709 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Swedish as Håkan; in U.S. records from 1973. | 10#7,856 | Down 669 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1958. | —Unranked | — | 1968 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1979. | 25#4,186 | Up 4,895 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1883. | —Unranked | — | 1914 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1968 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2015. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1913 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1918. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2014. | —Unranked | — | 2014 |
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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.