Persson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a common surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɛʂɔn̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Persson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 113(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2.4K
- NONorway1 in 2.5K
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)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113 (inferred from the name graph)
90,298 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
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Persson 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 | #7 | 90,298 | 1 in 113 | 90K | Persson | 215 |
| BJ Benin | #13 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Persson | 8 |
| DK Denmark | #247 | 2,448 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.4K | Persson | 101 |
| NO Norway | #279 | 2,170 | 1 in 2.5K | 2.2K | Persson | 55 |
| US United States | — | 2,106 | 1 in 158K | 2.3K | Persson | 245 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,045 | 1 in 5.3K | 1K | Persson | 14 |
90,298 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Persson 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, patronymic for the son of Per
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Gene Perssonb. 1934USAmerican actor (1934-2008)
- Örjan Perssonb. 1942SESwedish footballer
- Leif G. W. Perssonb. 1945SESwedish criminologist and writer
- Kristina Perssonb. 1945SESwedish politician
- Stefan Perssonb. 1947SEbusiness magnate
- Göran Perssonb. 1949SEPrime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006
- Jörgen Perssonb. 1966SESwedish table tennis player
- Nina Perssonb. 1974SESwedish singer (born 1974)
- Joakim Perssonb. 1975SESwedish footballer
- Markus Perssonb. 1979SESwedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Persson mean, and where does it come from?
- a common surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Persson?
- In the etymology graph, Pettersson and Petersson are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Persson?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɛʂɔn̪/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Persson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 90 thousand people named Persson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled persson.
- Where is Persson most common?
- Persson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 113 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Persson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 90,298 people named Persson, about 1 in 113 residents.
- How common is Persson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Persson is the 7th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/perssonThe 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, “Persson” — the 7th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.