Wallgren
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/valɡreːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Wallgren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Wallgren, from vall (“pasture”) + gren (“branch”). Compare Wahlgren.
- SESweden1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 24K
- NONorway1 in 98K
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)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,391 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- SwedishWallgren(measured from records)
- Swedish rootvall“pasture”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Swedish Wallgren, from vall (“pasture”) + gren (“branch”). Compare Wahlgren.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wallgren 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 | #287 | 2,391 | 1 in 4.3K | 2.4K | Wallgren | 83 |
| US United States | — | 609 | 1 in 546K | 609 | Wallgren | 159 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Wallgren | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 236 | 1 in 24K | 236 | Wallgren | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 412K | — | Wallgren | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 56 | 1 in 98K | 56 | Wallgren | 7 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Wallgren | 1 |
2,391 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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). 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)- Otto Wallgrenb. 1795SESwedish painter (1795–1857)
- Axel Wallgrenb. 1869FIFinnish physician (1869-1946)
- Åke Wallgrenb. 1873SESwedish actor
- Monrad Charles Wallgrenb. 1891USAmerican politician (1891-1961)
- Henrik Wallgrenb. 1928FIFinnish zoologist and university teacher (1928-2014)
- Jan Wallgrenb. 1935NONorwegian pianist (1935-1996)
- Ulf Wallgrenb. 1954SESwedish journalist
- Thomas Wallgrenb. 1958FIFinnish philosopher and politician
- Henrik Wallgrenb. 1965SESwedish author
- Tomas Wallgrenb. 1986SESwedish ice hockey player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.4K | #432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 609 | #36,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 585 | #40,393 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 542 | #38,395 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 236 | #6,533 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 116 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,119 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Wallgren mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Wallgren, from vall (“pasture”) + gren (“branch”). Compare Wahlgren. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Wallgren?
- In Swedish /valɡreːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Wallgren have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Wallgren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wallgren.
- Where is Wallgren most common?
- Wallgren is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wallgren?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,391 people named Wallgren, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Wallgren compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Wallgren is the 287th 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/wallgrenThe 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, “Wallgren” — the 287th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.