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Swen

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Swedish origin

Swen has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1915, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Swen, 1979

1 in 665,000

Swen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Swen: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Swedish origin

Swedish

What Swen means

Swen is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Swen is used in German. Its origins include Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Swen between 1912 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,029 in 1912.

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 Swen?

Swen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 665,000
5 of 3,326,731 births
Among boys only
1 in 344,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Swen 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 1979 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 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Swen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Swens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Swen was born before 1919 — so the typical Swen is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
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1910s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Swen 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 1915 (9)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,029
1912

Spellings of Swen

Swen is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 38.5% against Swen's <0.01%.

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 Swen is used

Across 1910–2025, Swen was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 640,270 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Swen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Swen around the world

Where Swen 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.

  • France
    1978–2024
    #5,038
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Swen 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,029
1912
Peak year
1915
9 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Swen

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

EwenJowenCowenEdwenWenKowenGwenJaywenSwedeKaiwenLowenDwenQwenBrewenShawenJawenHaowenRhowenRowenBowenOwen

Sibling names for Swen

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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