Ericsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: a common surname originating as a patronymic, equivalent to English Ericsson
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/e:rikson/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ericsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 25K
- NONorway1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
6,036 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a common surname originating as a patronymic, equivalent to English Ericsson
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Ericsson is read(measured from records)
Ericsson is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swedish52%
a common surname originating as a patronymic, equivalent to English Ericsson
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English32%
Leif, Norse explorer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ericsson 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 | 6,036 | 1 in 1.7K | 6K | Ericsson | 30 |
| US United States | 521 | 1 in 638K | 850 | Ericsson | 29 |
| FI Finland | 227 | 1 in 25K | 227 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 202 | 1 in 27K | 202 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 48 | 1 in 947K | 48 | Ericsson | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
6,036 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ericsson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Telekomunikāciju koncerns, lielākais Zviedrijā un viens no vadošajiem pasaulē, dib. 1876. g.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Haakon Ericssonb. 997NOking of Norway and earl of Lade
- John Ericssonb. 1803SESwedish-US engineer (1803-1889)
- Lars Magnus Ericssonb. 1846SESwedish inventor and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (1846–1926)
- Gunnar Ericssonb. 1906SESwedish politician
- Astrid Lindgrenb. 1907SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)
- Sigvard Ericssonb. 1930SESwedish speed skater (1930–2019)
- K. Anders Ericssonb. 1947SESwedish psychologist
- Jimmie Ericssonb. 1980SESwedish ice hockey player
- Jonathan Ericssonb. 1984SESwedish ice hockey player
- Marcus Ericssonb. 1990SESwedish racing driver
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6K | #155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 850 | #29,580 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 806 | #28,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 521 | #41,728 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 227 | #6,739 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 202 | #7,766 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 104 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 48 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #28,465 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Ericsson mean, and where does it come from?
- a common surname originating as a patronymic, equivalent to English Ericsson Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ericsson?
- A machine transcription gives /e:rikson/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Ericsson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Ericsson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ericsson.
- Where is Ericsson most common?
- Ericsson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ericsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,036 people named Ericsson, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ericsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ericssonThe 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, “Ericsson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.