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A name. A world of connections.
Old Norse roots
[sʋɛn] · Norwegian Bokmål
01 / Meaning & origin
Svenn is a masculine given name documented in Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Sveinn.
A spelling variant of Sven, with doubled final n; ultimately from Old Norse Sveinn m, originally a byname based on the common noun sveinn (“boy, young man, servant”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Svenn, Danish Svenn and Swedish Svenn (“male given name”).
02 / Across borders
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3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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Published statistics
France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2025: 5 boys (rank 6608).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Svenn
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 18 | 197 | observed |
| 1946 | 27 | 168 | observed |
| 1947 | 37 | 132 | observed |
| 1948 | 26 | 172 | observed |
| 1949 | 26 | 163 | observed |
| 1950 | 26 | 167 | observed |
| 1951 | 32 | 144 | observed |
| 1952 | 35 | 141 | observed |
| 1953 | 32 | 147 | observed |
| 1954 | 29 | 151 | observed |
| 1955 | 28 | 157 | observed |
| 1956 | 20 | 200 | observed |
| 1957 | 16 | 220 | observed |
| 1958 | 23 | 182 | observed |
| 1959 | 17 | 211 | observed |
| 1960 | 24 | 187 | observed |
| 1961 | 29 | 165 | observed |
| 1962 | 30 | 164 | observed |
| 1963 | 24 | 185 | observed |
| 1964 | 18 | 230 | observed |
| 1965 | 33 | 165 | observed |
| 1966 | 25 | 205 | observed |
| 1967 | 35 | 171 | observed |
| 1968 | 38 | 165 | observed |
| 1969 | 31 | 187 | observed |
| 1970 | 40 | 167 | observed |
| 1971 | 31 | 197 | observed |
| 1972 | 23 | 229 | observed |
| 1973 | 27 | 212 | observed |
| 1974 | 18 | 262 | observed |
| 1975 | 20 | 243 | observed |
| 1976 | 17 | 271 | observed |
| 1977 | 17 | 272 | observed |
| 1978 | 21 | 245 | observed |
| 1979 | 12 | 348 | observed |
| 1980 | 11 | 372 | observed |
| 1981 | 18 | 266 | observed |
| 1982 | 14 | 323 | observed |
| 1983 | 11 | 373 | observed |
| 1984 | 8 | 456 | observed |
| 1985 | 19 | 270 | observed |
| 1986 | 4 | 603 | observed |
| 1987 | 14 | 316 | observed |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | 10 | 397 | observed |
| 1990 | 7 | 478 | observed |
| 1991 | 5 | 554 | observed |
| 1992 | 5 | 524 | observed |
| 1993 | 7 | 445 | observed |
| 1994 | 5 | 507 | observed |
| 1995 | 7 | 438 | observed |
| 1996 | 7 | 429 | observed |
| 1997 | 4 | 549 | observed |
| 1998 | 6 | 449 | observed |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Svenn” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
