Sven

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sven: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sven: Recorded every year since 1945, its highest recorded position is #69, and it stood at #290 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
99times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#69highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sven's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 26 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#1578
1998	#1263
1999	#1383
2000	#2501
2001	#2220
2002	#3225
2003	#2189
2005	#3208
2006	#3385
2007	#4333
2011	#4647
2012	#3987
2015	#3908
2017	#3040
2019	#4702
2022	#4001
2024	#4270

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #412 among boys in Norway, #4270 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #69 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #69 among boys in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #290 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Sven appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 3,981 births with the name.

Sven across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sven's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#69 (1945)	#69 (1945)	#290 (2025)	81 of 81	3,981 (1945–2025)	116 (1968)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1263 (1998)	#4270 (2024)	18 of 29	88 (1996–2024)	10 (1998)

Sven by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sven in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	475	5 of 10	95
1950s	882	10 of 10	88
1960sbusiest	988	10 of 10	99
1970s	723	10 of 10	72
1980s	453	10 of 10	45
1990s	226	10 of 10	23
2000s	98	10 of 10	10
2010s	80	10 of 10	8
2020s	56	6 of 10	9

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 99 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1972 and 1973, when recorded births fell by 31, from 92 to 61.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Sven appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #69 in Norway in 1945.

Sven's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#290	14	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#412	7	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#444	6	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#353	9	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#330	10	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#334	10	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#441	6	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#466	6	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#351	11	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#370	10	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#443	7	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#400	9	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#515	5	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#399	9	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#349	11	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#485	6	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#526	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#332	13	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#401	9	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#476	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#511	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#342	10	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#387	9	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#260	16	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#479	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#255	19	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#234	21	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#382	9	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#265	18	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#275	17	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#231	24	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#266	19	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#220	28	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#300	16	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#213	30	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#163	44	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#160	43	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#170	41	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#212	28	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#153	49	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#180	37	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#173	40	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#200	31	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#142	54	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#128	61	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#116	69	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#126	61	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#132	57	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#119	59	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#111	68	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#118	71	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#103	85	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#129	61	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#98	92	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#110	79	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#90	90	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#84	106	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#76	116	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#91	90	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#82	102	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#82	103	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#85	95	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#78	100	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#83	96	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#93	78	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#75	102	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#92	75	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#90	85	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#77	100	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#84	91	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#84	88	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#81	93	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#86	89	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#84	90	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#87	84	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#83	87	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#77	90	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#81	87	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#82	90	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#76	99	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#69	109	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #69, first reached in 1945.

It held a top-100 place in 27 years, 26 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 116 births, registered in Norway in 1968.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Svein-Erik · #225, 33y
Sveinung · #128, 66y
Svend · #154, 52y
Svenn · #137, 53y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Evy · #69, 80y
Georg · #65, 81y
Sigmund · #60, 81y
Edvard · #59, 80y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Evy · #69, 80y
Lina · #69, 72y
Merethe · #69, 54y
Torgeir · #69, 72y

Sven was ranked #69 in Norway · Boys in 1945. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sven and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sven without appearing here.

Sven moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4647 and #4647 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #3040 and #4812.
Espen Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4001 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.
Glenn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3040 and #2512 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4001 and #2165 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Sven

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3040 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2104.
Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2189 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3208 and #1135.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3040 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2728.
Nicola Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3040 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #3013.

Moved the opposite way to Sven

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 while David went from #167 to #88.
Emil Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 while Emil went from #271 to #2.

Moved the same way as Sven

Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.
Dag Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Sven went from #69 to #290 and Dag from #48 to #426.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #69 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sven

Sven at a glance

What stands out in Sven's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sven across 2 official records

Sven by decade in Norway · Boys

Sven appears in

Popularity data

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What stands out in Sven's record

Sven across 2 official records

Sven by decade in Norway · Boys

Sven appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Sven

Sven and the names beside it

Sven moved ahead of

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