Sven Forename
3,613th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 290,697 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Sweden
Sven Forename User-submission:
The Sven surnames comes from the Old Norse sveinn, meaning 'boy'.
Sven Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 134,264 | 1:720 | 183 |
| Sweden | 100% | 97,177 | 1:101 | 11 |
| Belgium | 100% | 12,264 | 1:937 | 220 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 9,886 | 1:1,710 | 357 |
| Norway | 100% | 6,753 | 1:760 | 191 |
| Denmark | - | 4,700 | 1:1,202 | 236 |
| United States | 100% | 4,394 | 1:82,507 | 3,896 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 3,526 | 1:2,329 | 442 |
| Estonia | 100% | 2,556 | 1:515 | 114 |
| Finland | 100% | 1,541 | 1:3,558 | 492 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,457 | 1:48,089 | 5,232 |
| England | 100% | 1,034 | 1:53,775 | 2,488 |
| South Africa | 99% | 984 | 1:55,419 | 5,524 |
| Austria | 100% | 948 | 1:8,981 | 589 |
| Poland | 100% | 942 | 1:40,368 | 1,154 |
| Croatia | 100% | 764 | 1:5,520 | 583 |
| Canada | 100% | 728 | 1:45,513 | 3,097 |
| France | 100% | 565 | 1:117,647 | 2,422 |
| Australia | - | 548 | 1:24,923 | 1,607 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 513 | 1:4,793 | 605 |
| Brazil | 100% | 384 | 1:557,907 | 17,635 |
| Spain | 100% | 296 | 1:157,196 | 3,622 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 291 | 1:105,885 | 10,050 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Iraq | 100% | 270 | 1:129,696 | 2,763 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 239 | 1:2,360 | 344 |
| Namibia | - | 226 | 1:10,638 | 1,267 |
| Suriname | 83% | 214 | 1:2,583 | 601 |
| New Zealand | - | 198 | 1:22,909 | 1,713 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 191 | 1:54,614 | 3,526 |
| Russia | 95% | 187 | 1:771,303 | 7,257 |
| China | - | 171 | 1:7,988,630 | 59,454 |
| Portugal | - | 138 | 1:75,441 | 2,229 |
| Chile | 100% | 137 | 1:128,520 | 2,915 |
| Morocco | - | 109 | 1:315,125 | 6,796 |
| Japan | - | 98 | 1:1,305,980 | 16,716 |
| Czechia | 100% | 96 | 1:111,002 | 1,203 |
| Egypt | 100% | 87 | 1:1,056,333 | 18,582 |
| Philippines | 99% | 87 | 1:1,218,500 | 31,300 |
| Greece | 100% | 82 | 1:133,348 | 3,227 |
| Mexico | 98% | 81 | 1:1,532,647 | 10,247 |
| Italy | 99% | 66 | 1:925,183 | 8,207 |
| Malaysia | 96% | 65 | 1:468,461 | 20,872 |
| Malta | - | 62 | 1:6,925 | 809 |
| Peru | 100% | 61 | 1:521,171 | 9,138 |
| Scotland | 100% | 61 | 1:87,711 | 2,176 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 56 | 1:94,823 | 968 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 54 | 1:132,444 | 9,305 |
| Ireland | 100% | 53 | 1:87,614 | 2,302 |
| Singapore | 100% | 52 | 1:120,905 | 7,686 |
| India | 87% | 48 | 1:25,309,958 | 550,886 |
| Guatemala | - | 47 | 1:342,733 | 3,797 |
| Ecuador | - | 43 | 1:412,254 | 4,884 |
| Greenland | - | 41 | 1:1,375 | 278 |
| Hong Kong | - | 29 | 1:267,335 | 3,524 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Israel | 84% | 26 | 1:323,189 | 7,892 |
| Guyana | 100% | 23 | 1:33,185 | 3,507 |
| Aruba | - | 21 | 1:4,942 | 942 |
| Palestine | 100% | 20 | 1:227,503 | 2,447 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 19 | 1:1,589,573 | 29,905 |
| Argentina | 100% | 18 | 1:2,376,291 | 8,279 |
| Cambodia | 60% | 18 | 1:904,074 | 14,944 |
| Indonesia | - | 15 | 1:17,197,578 | 460,669 |
| Gibraltar | - | 14 | 1:2,438 | 470 |
| Iceland | 100% | 14 | 1:26,144 | 1,689 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 14 | 1:401,969 | 5,774 |
| Wales | 100% | 14 | 1:221,022 | 3,846 |
| Belarus | 100% | 13 | 1:729,414 | 4,213 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 13 | 1:2,912 | 381 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 12 | 1:8,283 | 1,404 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 12 | 1:4,094 | 700 |
| Jordan | 86% | 11 | 1:802,434 | 4,728 |
| South Korea | - | 11 | 1:504,038 | 12,654 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 9 | 1:776,710 | 9,666 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 9 | 1:2,641,076 | 57,947 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 9 | 1:151,269 | 9,102 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 8 | 1:595,994 | 8,229 |
| Jamaica | - | 8 | 1:360,403 | 10,541 |
| Turkey | 100% | 7 | 1:11,114,530 | 34,230 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 7 | 1:6,499,987 | 10,516 |
| Vietnam | - | 7 | 1:13,231,873 | 4,411 |
| Honduras | - | 6 | 1:1,469,578 | 13,832 |
| Monaco | 100% | 6 | 1:6,411 | 917 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 6 | 1:1,206,134 | 7,440 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 6 | 1:8,798,053 | 38,955 |
| Congo | 100% | 5 | 1:1,001,841 | 16,039 |
| Hungary | 64% | 5 | 1:1,958,354 | 4,174 |
| Qatar | 100% | 5 | 1:473,921 | 38,106 |
| Zambia | - | 5 | 1:3,170,959 | 26,788 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 4 | 1:18,456,901 | 95,891 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Gabon | 100% | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Romania | - | 4 | 1:5,012,994 | 31,756 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Bolivia | - | 3 | 1:3,533,801 | 5,917 |
| Colombia | 100% | 3 | 1:15,926,309 | 51,235 |
| El Salvador | - | 3 | 1:2,113,929 | 9,538 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Kenya | - | 3 | 1:15,435,703 | 51,312 |
| Maldives | - | 3 | 1:144,634 | 3,056 |
| Panama | - | 3 | 1:1,302,186 | 25,104 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Liberia | - | 2 | 1:2,206,030 | 27,695 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Uganda | - | 2 | 1:20,478,460 | 91,660 |
| Uruguay | - | 2 | 1:1,713,818 | 10,870 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cameroon | - | 1 | 1:21,610,503 | 119,836 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Georgia | 100% | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Pakistan | - | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 1 | 1:8,152,314 | 202,620 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| San Marino | - | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 1 | 1:15,423,817 | 113,731 |
Sven (1,120) may also be a surname.
Sven Forename Meaning
Sven Forename Popularity
Sven Demographics
Average Sven Salary in
United States
$50,535 USD
Per year
Rank:
122,752 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00113103
Rank: 4,014 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
116.1%
Sample size: 1,845 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
| Forename | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Svein | 89 | 38,270 | / |
| Svend | 89 | 24,414 | / |
| Svenn | 89 | 2,143 | / |
| Svent | 89 | 37 | / |
| Sveen | 89 | 23 | / |
| Shven | 89 | 15 | / |
| Sveng | 89 | 9 | / |
| Svien | 89 | 7 | / |
| Svene | 89 | 6 | / |
| Jsven | 89 | 1 | / |
| Scven | 89 | 1 | / |
| S'ven | 89 | 1 | / |
| Sveyn | 89 | 1 | / |
| Svemn | 89 | 1 | / |
| Ssven | 89 | 1 | / |
| Sveinn | 80 | 1,518 | / |
| Svetin | 80 | 277 | / |
| Svenne | 80 | 140 | / |
| Sveten | 80 | 5 | / |
| Sveann | 80 | 3 | / |
| Sviten | 80 | 2 | / |
| Saèven | 80 | 1 | / |
| Schven | 80 | 1 | / |
| Shvetn | 80 | 1 | / |
| Shveen | 80 | 1 | / |
| Sventh | 80 | 1 | / |
| Svenht | 80 | 1 | / |
| Sveinc | 80 | 1 | / |
| Sveijn | 80 | 1 | / |
| Svin | 75 | 259 | / |
| Svem | 75 | 20 | / |
| Jven | 75 | 15 | / |
| Zven | 75 | 12 | / |
| Cven | 75 | 12 | / |
| Svän | 75 | 8 | / |
| Svyn | 75 | 3 | / |
| Sveanne | 73 | 2 | / |
| Soviaen | 73 | 1 | / |
| Schvenn | 73 | 1 | / |
| Sveynne | 73 | 1 | / |
| Suene | 67 | 2,037 | / |
| Svina | 67 | 208 | / |
| Swene | 67 | 38 | / |
| Shvem | 67 | 32 | / |
| Swein | 67 | 29 | / |
| Sweyn | 67 | 28 | / |
| Chven | 67 | 18 | / |
| Shvin | 67 | 12 | / |
| Sving | 67 | 12 | / |
| Swean | 67 | 10 | / |
| Svain | 67 | 8 | / |
| Sbhen | 67 | 3 | / |
| Jvenn | 67 | 2 | / |
| Svoin | 67 | 2 | / |
| Svyng | 67 | 2 | / |
| Svind | 67 | 2 | / |
| Svine | 67 | 2 | / |
| Svisn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Sveim | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svesingh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svgin | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svimn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Sbene | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svnyo | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svnno | 67 | 1 | / |
| Suejn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svayn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Jvent | 67 | 1 | / |
| Jvein | 67 | 1 | / |
| Hsvin | 67 | 1 | / |
| Zvenn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Zveen | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svint | 67 | 1 | / |
| Sbein | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swenh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swgen | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swetn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svyon | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svitn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Svissent | 67 | 1 | / |
| Dsvyn | 67 | 1 | / |
Sven Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sven in the Russian language | ||
| Свен | sven | - |
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