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Sverre

“wild, swinging, spinning”

masculineLatin script

[ˈsʋæ̂rː.ə̌] · Norwegian Bokmål

Origin: Old Norse
7 language contexts: Swedish Danish Finnish +4 more
Follow the evidence: 6 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Sverre

Sverre is a masculine given name documented in Swedish, Danish, Finnish and 4 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Sverrir. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “wild, swinging, spinning”.

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “wild, swinging, spinning”

Inherited from Old Norse Sverrir m, originally a byname derived from sverra (“to swing around, spin; move violently”), and interpreted as “troublemaker; wild, restless person”. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Sverre, Danish Sverre, Swedish Sverre, Faroese Sverri and Icelandic Sverrir (“male given name”).

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (6)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q970810
Masculine usage in Norwegian Bokmål · Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Norwegian Nynorsk · Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Norwegian · Greek Wiktionary: Sverre

Explore all 7 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Sverre” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q970810.

Name day: 03-09 (Norway).

All pronunciation details (3)

[ˈsʋæ̂rː.ə̌] — Norwegian Bokmål
/²ˈsʋɛrː.ə/ — Norwegian Bokmål
/²svɛrːə/ — Norwegian Nynorsk

02 / Across borders

Where Sverre is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Sverre’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1916: 5 boys (rank 3897).

Explore United States

4 of 7 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Sverre

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 188; births; Rank #33
Peak year: 1947; 251 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

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.

Show the data table

Sverre in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	232	36	observed
1946	247	36	observed
1947	251	32	observed
1948	221	38	observed
1949	211	40	observed
1950	178	43	observed
1951	178	46	observed
1952	161	53	observed
1953	151	55	observed
1954	147	54	observed
1955	137	60	observed
1956	138	59	observed
1957	115	71	observed
1958	126	65	observed
1959	123	68	observed
1960	110	71	observed
1961	100	78	observed
1962	118	68	observed
1963	112	69	observed
1964	93	89	observed
1965	107	74	observed
1966	103	80	observed
1967	110	78	observed
1968	77	100	observed
1969	94	91	observed
1970	70	113	observed
1971	80	108	observed
1972	73	116	observed
1973	88	97	observed
1974	68	123	observed
1975	89	97	observed
1976	64	121	observed
1977	51	139	observed
1978	56	133	observed
1979	56	133	observed
1980	56	136	observed
1981	65	118	observed
1982	51	145	observed
1983	53	139	observed
1984	53	135	observed
1985	45	152	observed
1986	48	154	observed
1987	32	189	observed
1988	51	151	observed
1989	64	119	observed
1990	45	157	observed
1991	49	145	observed
1992	57	121	observed
1993	53	129	observed
1994	59	123	observed
1995	62	113	observed
1996	68	111	observed
1997	45	151	observed
1998	57	122	observed
1999	38	166	observed
2000	51	137	observed
2001	46	140	observed
2002	60	119	observed
2003	54	126	observed
2004	61	115	observed
2005	42	153	observed
2006	89	94	observed
2007	103	83	observed
2008	114	81	observed
2009	131	72	observed
2010	120	75	observed
2011	124	75	observed
2012	128	70	observed
2013	138	61	observed
2014	129	65	observed
2015	139	61	observed
2016	158	49	observed
2017	149	50	observed
2018	156	46	observed
2019	153	43	observed
2020	131	45	observed
2021	149	43	observed
2022	132	47	observed
2023	160	44	observed
2024	197	28	observed
2025	188	33	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Sverre” 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.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Sverre of Norway
1151–1202
king of Norway
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
born 2005
Norwegian prince (born 2005)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Sverre Fehn
1924–2009
Norwegian architect (1924-2009)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Pål Sverre Hagen
born 1980
Norwegian actor (born 1980)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Sverre Lunde Pedersen
born 1992
Norwegian speed skater
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Sverre with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q970810CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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.

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About Sverre

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “wild, swinging, spinning”

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (6)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q970810
Masculine usage in Norwegian Bokmål · Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Norwegian Nynorsk · Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Sverre
Masculine usage in Norwegian · Greek Wiktionary: Sverre

Explore all 7 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Sverre” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q970810.

Name day: 03-09 (Norway).

All pronunciation details (3)

[ˈsʋæ̂rː.ə̌] — Norwegian Bokmål
/²ˈsʋɛrː.ə/ — Norwegian Bokmål
/²svɛrːə/ — Norwegian Nynorsk

Where Sverre is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Sverre’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1916: 5 boys (rank 3897).

Explore United States

4 of 7 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Sverre

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 188; births; Rank #33
Peak year: 1947; 251 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

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.

Show the data table

Sverre in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	232	36	observed
1946	247	36	observed
1947	251	32	observed
1948	221	38	observed
1949	211	40	observed
1950	178	43	observed
1951	178	46	observed
1952	161	53	observed
1953	151	55	observed
1954	147	54	observed
1955	137	60	observed
1956	138	59	observed
1957	115	71	observed
1958	126	65	observed
1959	123	68	observed
1960	110	71	observed
1961	100	78	observed
1962	118	68	observed
1963	112	69	observed
1964	93	89	observed
1965	107	74	observed
1966	103	80	observed
1967	110	78	observed
1968	77	100	observed
1969	94	91	observed
1970	70	113	observed
1971	80	108	observed
1972	73	116	observed
1973	88	97	observed
1974	68	123	observed
1975	89	97	observed
1976	64	121	observed
1977	51	139	observed
1978	56	133	observed
1979	56	133	observed
1980	56	136	observed
1981	65	118	observed
1982	51	145	observed
1983	53	139	observed
1984	53	135	observed
1985	45	152	observed
1986	48	154	observed
1987	32	189	observed
1988	51	151	observed
1989	64	119	observed
1990	45	157	observed
1991	49	145	observed
1992	57	121	observed
1993	53	129	observed
1994	59	123	observed
1995	62	113	observed
1996	68	111	observed
1997	45	151	observed
1998	57	122	observed
1999	38	166	observed
2000	51	137	observed
2001	46	140	observed
2002	60	119	observed
2003	54	126	observed
2004	61	115	observed
2005	42	153	observed
2006	89	94	observed
2007	103	83	observed
2008	114	81	observed
2009	131	72	observed
2010	120	75	observed
2011	124	75	observed
2012	128	70	observed
2013	138	61	observed
2014	129	65	observed
2015	139	61	observed
2016	158	49	observed
2017	149	50	observed
2018	156	46	observed
2019	153	43	observed
2020	131	45	observed
2021	149	43	observed
2022	132	47	observed
2023	160	44	observed
2024	197	28	observed
2025	188	33	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Sverre of Norway
1151–1202
king of Norway
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
born 2005
Norwegian prince (born 2005)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Sverre Fehn
1924–2009
Norwegian architect (1924-2009)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Pål Sverre Hagen
born 1980
Norwegian actor (born 1980)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Sverre Lunde Pedersen
born 1992
Norwegian speed skater
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q970810CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: SverreCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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.

A story to pass on.

About Sverre

Old Norse origin

Where Sverre is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Sverre of Norway

Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

Sverre Fehn

Pål Sverre Hagen

Sverre Lunde Pedersen

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Sverrir

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Sverre

Old Norse origin

Where Sverre is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Sverre of Norway

Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

Sverre Fehn

Pål Sverre Hagen

Sverre Lunde Pedersen

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Sverrir

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page