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Sverre

Boys' name

Trouble-maker

Sverre has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1913, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Sverre, 1916

1 in 387,000

Sverre over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sverre: meaning, origin, and history

Trouble-maker

Old Norse

What Sverre means

Sverre means “trouble-maker”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sverre is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Sverre comes through Old Norse Sverrir.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sverri and Sverrir.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Sverre is pronounced /²svɛrːə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Sverre between 1913 and 1916. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1913; its best national rank was #2,477 in 1913.

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 Sverre?

Sverre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1916, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1916
1 in 387,000
5 of 1,934,362 births
Among boys only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1916
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
268,161 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sverre sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1916 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 268,161 children born in 1916 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sverre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sverres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sverre was born before 1913 — so the typical Sverre is around 112 today.

Median birth year
1913
About 112 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Sverre 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1913 (7)
Years since peak
112
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,477
1913

Spellings of Sverre

Sverre is not the most common spelling — Pierre is, with 63.4% against Sverre's 0.04%.

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.

Sverre around the world

Where Sverre 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #33
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1981–1981
    #425
    in 1981

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sverre by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,477
1913
Peak year
1913
7 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1916
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sverre

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

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Sibling names for Sverre

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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