Per-Eric

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pere:rik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Per-Eric is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 328K
  • USUnited States≈1 in 182M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

412 people

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pereric in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Per-Eric counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Per-Eric is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden4121 in 25K412Per-Eric30
FI Finland171 in 328K46Per-Eric3
US United States≈2 est.≈1 in 182M—Pereric5
EE Estonia——listed——

412 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling per-eric. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Per-Eric is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Pereric

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900192019401960Per-Eric Ringaby, b. 1916Per-Eric Haglund, b. 1920Per-Eric Smiding, b. 1950Pelle Lindbergh, b. 1959

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHej Per-Eric,Hi Per-Eric, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Per-Eric
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—412#3,172
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2002336—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2005335—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2004335—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2003335—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2006333—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2007330—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2008326—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2009323—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2010320—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2011317—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012316—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Per-Eric?
A machine transcription gives /pere:rik/ (IPA) for Swedish.
Is Per-Eric a male or female name?
Per-Eric is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Per-Eric have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 412 people named Per-Eric, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Per-Eric.
Where is Per-Eric most common?
Per-Eric is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Per-Eric?
In Sweden, the national register counted 412 people named Per-Eric, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/per-eric

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Per-Eric”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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