Sven
#3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
- Peak · boys
- 1967 · 45 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,517since 1911
Sven over time
Rank among boys' names. Sven has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #2,595 | 51 |
| 2023 | #2,510 | 53 |
| 2022 | #2,616 | 51 |
| 2021 | #2,819 | 44 |
| 2020 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | #2,472 | 52 |
| 2017 | #3,123 | 37 |
| 2016 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #2,276 | 58 |
| 2014 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #4,110 | 24 |
| 2010 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2007 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #2,887 | 35 |
| 2003 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #2,865 | 22 |
| 1989 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #2,146 | 29 |
| 1987 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #1,917 | 31 |
| 1985 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #2,140 | 24 |
| 1982 | #1,774 | 32 |
| 1981 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #2,110 | 25 |
| 1979 | #1,788 | 31 |
| 1978 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #1,571 | 35 |
| 1976 | #2,177 | 21 |
| 1975 | #1,948 | 24 |
| 1974 | #1,790 | 26 |
| 1973 | #1,736 | 26 |
| 1972 | #1,771 | 25 |
| 1971 | #1,352 | 39 |
| 1970 | #1,260 | 43 |
| 1969 | #1,265 | 39 |
| 1968 | #1,428 | 30 |
| 1967 | #1,102 | 45 |
| 1966 | #1,613 | 23 |
| 1965 | #1,360 | 32 |
| 1964 | #1,510 | 27 |
| 1963 | #1,659 | 23 |
| 1962 | #1,403 | 31 |
| 1961 | #1,876 | 19 |
| 1960 | #1,523 | 28 |
| 1959 | #1,665 | 23 |
| 1958 | #1,953 | 17 |
| 1957 | #1,751 | 21 |
| 1956 | #2,798 | 9 |
| 1955 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1954 | #1,887 | 17 |
| 1953 | #2,099 | 14 |
| 1952 | #2,514 | 10 |
| 1951 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #2,438 | 10 |
| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | #3,525 | 5 |
| 1945 | #2,743 | 7 |
| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | #2,277 | 11 |
| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
| 1940 | #3,459 | 5 |
| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,332 | 10 |
| 1936 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,121 | 12 |
| 1933 | #2,093 | 12 |
| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #1,964 | 15 |
| 1929 | #2,199 | 13 |
| 1928 | #2,048 | 15 |
| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #2,822 | 10 |
| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,882 | 9 |
| 1917 | #2,188 | 13 |
| 1916 | #1,949 | 15 |
| 1915 | #2,310 | 11 |
| 1914 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | — | |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,537 | 6 |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Sven! It came in at #1,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1913, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Sven
- 988 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #3,583)
- 1,146 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #3,583)
- 1,307 spots since 2015 (#2,276 → #3,583)
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1967 at #1,102 (45 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,275 boys born in 2023 were named Sven (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,102 in 1967, was only 1 in 38,751 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 16.6% of all boys named Sven (418) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 67 | #1,537 (1911) | #2,106 |
| 1920s | 81 | #2,048 (1928) | #3,088 |
| 1930s | 85 | #1,964 (1930) | #2,610 |
| 1940s | 63 | #2,277 (1943) | #3,196 |
| 1950s | 143 | #1,665 (1959) | #2,209 |
| 1960s | 297 | #1,102 (1967) | #1,474 |
| 1970s | 293 | #1,260 (1970) | #1,746 |
| 1980s | 254 | #1,774 (1982) | #2,214 |
| 1990s | 261 | #2,394 (1998) | #2,826 |
| 2000s | 272 | #2,887 (2004) | #3,567 |
| 2010s | 418 | #2,276 (2015) | #2,963 |
| 2020s | 283 | #2,437 (2020) | #2,760 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sven in 1911
Top boys' names in 1911
More about 1911
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225,970 boys got a published name in 1911; 1 in 37,662 of them was named Sven, which outranked 23.1% of the 1,999 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,387Woodson7
- #1,387York7
- #1,387Zigmund7
- #1,537Sven6
- #1,537Adelard6
- #1,537Adell6
- #1,537Adrien6
- #1,740Achille5
- #1,740Aden5
- #1,740Adolphe5
Tied with 202 names at #1,537; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.