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What names do Swedish parents give their newborn babies?

New statistics reveal the most popular baby names in Sweden.

Published: 31 January 2022 10:52 CET
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Is this an Alice, a Liam or possibly a Ted? Photo: Fotograferna Holmberg/TT

If a Swede had a baby girl in 2021, chances are they named her Alice.

For the sixth year in a row, the name made the top of national number crunchers Statistics Sweden’s list.

A total of 706 girls in Sweden were named Alice in 2021.

The name was followed by Maja (681 girls) and Vera (674). Maja has made Sweden’s top-ten list almost every year in the past two decades, but Vera climbed from 13th spot in a year.

Noah is the most popular name for boys, with 745 newborn boys named Noah last year. It was followed by William (726) – a long-runner which has topped the top-ten list a whopping eight times since 1999.

A total of 683 boys were named Liam, the third most popular name.

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The names that made the biggest leaps last year were Alba for 247 girls – which claimed 51st place despite never before having made the top-100 most popular names – and Ted, which jumped from 94th to 55th spot thanks to 265 newborn boys being given the name.

The most popular names for newborn girls in Sweden in 2021:

1. Alice

2. Maja

3. Vera

4. Alma

5. Selma

6. Elsa

7. Lilly

8. Ella

9. Astrid

10. Wilma

The most popular names for newborn boys in Sweden in 2021:

1. Noah

2. William

3. Liam

4. Hugo

5. Lucas

6. Adam

7. Oliver

8. Matteo

9. Frans

10. Elias

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More than one in ten foreigners in Sweden don’t have a close friend

Hundreds of thousands of people in Sweden don't have a close friend, a new survey by national number crunchers Statistics Sweden shows.

Published: 23 April 2024 11:05 CEST
More than one in ten foreigners in Sweden don't have a close friend

“It’s statistically proven that between 610,000 and 720,000 people aged 16 and above don’t have a close friend. That corresponds to seven to eight percent of the population at that age,” said Statistics Sweden analyst Thomas Helgeson in a statement.

It’s more than twice as common for foreign-born people not to have a close friend.

Around 13 percent of Sweden’s foreign-born population don’t have a close friend, compared to six percent of native-born Swedes (the figure is roughly the same for the entire group of people born in Sweden, regardless of whether they have foreign or Swedish parents).

There’s a gap between the sexes too. Nine percent of men and six percent of women don’t have a close friend.

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There’s a similar gender gap among foreign-born residents in Sweden, of whom more than 15 percent of men said they don’t have a close friend, compared to almost 11 percent of women.

And finally, the more highly educated people are, the greater the chance of close friendship.

More than 12 percent of people without a Swedish high school diploma said they lacked a close friend, compared to just over five percent of those with a university degree of at least three years.

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