Danielsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/da:nielson/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Danielsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 720(measured from records)
- AXÅland Islands1 in 164
- BJBenin≈1 in 2.7K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 164 (inferred from the name graph)
14,162 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Daníelsson in IS Iceland.
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(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Danielsson 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #41 | 14,162 | 1 in 720 | 14K | Danielsson | 135 |
| BJ Benin | #280 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Danielsson | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,280 | 1 in 4.4K | 1.3K | Danielsson | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 258 | 1 in 21K | 258 | Danielsson | 19 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 160 | 1 in 164 | 160 | — | 4 |
| IS Iceland | #347 | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 6 | Daníelsson | 31 |
14,162 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gösta Danielssonb. 1912SESwedish chess player (1912–1978)
- Bengt Danielssonb. 1921SESwedish ethnographer and anthropologist (1921–1997)
- Tage Danielssonb. 1928SESwedish actor, writer and director (1928–1985)
- Monica Dominiqueb. 1940SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actor and musician
- Inge Danielssonb. 1941SESwedish association football player (1941-2021)
- Palle Danielssonb. 1946SESwedish jazz musician; double bassist and composer (1946–2024)
- Kikki Danielssonb. 1952SESwedish singer, accordinist and song lyricist
- Peter Danielssonb. 1974SESwedish politician
- Gustav Danielssonb. 1975SESwedish cinematographer and director
- Marcus Danielsonb. 1989SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14K | #46 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #1,517 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 454 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 258 | #6,055 |
| AX Åland Islands | ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames) | 2025 | 160 | #17 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Danielsson mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Danielsson?
- A machine transcription gives /da:nielson/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Danielsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Danielsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danielsson.
- Where is Danielsson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Danielsson is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 164 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Danielsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 14,162 people named Danielsson, about 1 in 720 residents.
- How common is Danielsson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Danielsson is the 41st most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Danielsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/danielssonThe 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, “Danielsson” — the 41st most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.