These Are The Most Popular Baby Names in Sweden

It’s that time of the year again: Statistics Sweden has just released fresh data with Sweden’s most popular baby names of 2019! 

Topping the list of most popular names given to babies in Swedes is Alice as a girl’s name, while the most popular boy’s name was Lucas.

The top 10 most popular girl’s name, in order, are Alice, Olivia, Astrid, Maja, Vera, Ebb, Ella, Wilma, Alma, and Libby. Alice topped the list of most popular names in almost half of Sweden’s counties and had a grand total of 688 newborn baby girls in 2019.

Plats 2019	Plats (2018)	Flicknamn	Antal	Plats 2019	Plats (2018)	Pojknamn	Antal
1	(1)	Alice	688	1	(4)	Lucas	768
2	(7)	Olivia	645	2	(2)	Liam	760
3	(8)	Astrid	628	3	(1)	William	732
4	(2)	Maja	618	4	(7)	Elias	729
5	( 19)	Vera	607	5	(3)	Noah	680
6	(6)	Ebba	590	6	(8)	Hugo	669
7	(4)	Ella	582	7	(5)	Oliver	647
8	(5)	Wilma	574	8	(6)	Oscar	645
9	(9)	Alma	562	9	(9)	Adam	620
10	(3)	Lilly	561	10	( 27)	Matteo	596

From the Swedish Statistics Bureau. https://www.scb.se/

Vera was a surprise, considering that this newcomer jumped 14 spots from last year’s results. Likewise, the girl’s name Hedda had a 53 percent increase in popularity over the previous year.

The top 10 most popular boy’s name, in order, are Lucas, Liam, William, Elias, Noah, Hugo, Oliver, Oscar, Adam, and Matteo. Lucas topped the list with 768 newborn baby boys last year. 

Interestingly enough, there were many unique baby names, which is defined as a name not usually on the list (or a unique spelling – i.e. Lukas instead of Lucas). In 2019, there were 4,578 girls and 4,342 boys who were given a very unique name.

The names which departed the top 100 list to make space for the new more popular names were Zoe, Belle, Penny and Greta for girls, and Jonathan, Milian, Maximilian, and Lias for boys.

This article was originally published on February 1, 2020.