Uncommon Swedish Girl Names
Swedish names range from northern classics to forms shared with the rest of Europe. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. 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. | 209#1,120 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 79#2,309 | Up 491 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1897. | 209#1,121 | Down 113 rank positions in five years | 1967 | ||
Recorded in Swedish as Märta; in U.S. records from 1888. | 92#2,056 | Up 515 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1881. | 134#1,574 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1956. | 12#8,619 | Down 1,838 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1947. | 6#14,543 | new | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1910. | 6#14,731 | new | 1943 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1915. | 114#1,776 | Down 145 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1893. | —Unranked | — | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1900. | —Unranked | — | 1972 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1967 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1972. | 5#15,149 | Down 2,874 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 13#8,230 | Up 4,888 rank positions in five years | 1891 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1893. | —Unranked | — | 1989 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1948. | —Unranked | — | 1957 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1888. | —Unranked | — | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1970. | 5#16,035 | Down 1,798 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1888. | —Unranked | — | 1923 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1911. | 6#14,819 | Up 2,549 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1917. | 6#13,562 | Down 5,055 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1899. | 8#11,847 | Up 1,525 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1970. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2025. | 5#17,202 | new | 2025 |
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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.