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Svea

#4,446 in 2025Girls' name

Swedes

Svea has been given to 967 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #4,446 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Svea, 2025

1 in 104,000

Svea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Svea: meaning, origin, and history

Swedes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Svea means

Svea means “Swedes”, associated with svear.

Origin, language, and formation

Svea is used in Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 967 girls were recorded with the name Svea between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,360 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,994 in 2020 to #4,446 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,707 in 2015 to #4,446 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Svea?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,446
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Svea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Svea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sveas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Svea was born before 2012 — so the typical Svea is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
789
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (325).

Is Svea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−881
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−452
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+261
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.1%
Peak was 2022 (47)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,360
1909

Spellings of Svea

Svea is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 26.5% against Svea's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Svea is used

Across 1910–2025, Svea was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 302,343 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Svea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Svea around the world

Where Svea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2015
    #5,527
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2007–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #653
    in 1964

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Svea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,446
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 452
Best rank ever
#1,360
1909
Peak year
2022
47 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
967
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Svea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Svea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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