Meaning not yet researched.
Sven: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,113 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,113 in 1967; #3,645 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sven in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,645 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #1,113.
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Sven: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,113 in 1967 · most boys in one year: 58 (2015).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Sven, making it the 3,645th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,015 places from #2,630 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 51 boys named Sven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,113, reached in 1967. The most boys given the name in a single year was 58, in 2015. For comparison, it was #2,293 in 2015 and #2,560 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sven in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 6 babies. In all, 2,517 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 418 babies named Sven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 461 US boys were named Sven; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Swen and Svend are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Swen (56), Svend (37).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Sven in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 31 | #3,645 |
| 2024 | — | — | 51 | #2,630 |
| 2023 | — | — | 53 | #2,535 |
| 2022 | — | — | 51 | #2,642 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,854 |
| 2020 | — | — | 53 | #2,462 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,520 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,501 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,187 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,216 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,293 |
| 2014 | — | — | 56 | #2,341 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,327 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,291 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,201 |
| 2010 | — | — | 35 | #3,230 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,814 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,412 |
| 2007 | — | — | 25 | #4,106 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,443 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,797 |
| 2004 | — | — | 35 | #2,946 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,258 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,334 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,397 |
| 2000 | — | — | 29 | #3,063 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,783 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,442 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,605 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,807 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,177 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,751 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,771 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,813 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,904 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,946 |
| 1989 | — | — | 29 | #2,345 |
| 1988 | — | — | 29 | #2,189 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,326 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,957 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,815 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,519 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,201 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,811 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,409 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,157 |
| 1979 | — | — | 31 | #1,829 |
| 1978 | — | — | 23 | #2,121 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,605 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,233 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,995 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,825 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,775 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,814 |
| 1971 | — | — | 39 | #1,375 |
| 1970 | — | — | 43 | #1,276 |
| 1969 | — | — | 39 | #1,277 |
| 1968 | — | — | 30 | #1,452 |
| 1967 | — | — | 45 | #1,113 |
| 1966 | — | — | 23 | #1,646 |
| 1965 | — | — | 32 | #1,379 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,539 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,689 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,418 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,941 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,546 |
| 1959 | — | — | 23 | #1,702 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #2,015 |
| 1957 | — | — | 21 | #1,784 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,942 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,212 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,950 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,173 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,661 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #3,039 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,560 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,268 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,131 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,339 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,963 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,969 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,395 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,391 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,987 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,950 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,886 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,802 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,462 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,119 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,512 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,246 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,199 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,732 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,264 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #2,066 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,308 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,146 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,417 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,350 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,799 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #3,005 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,778 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,501 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,829 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,077 |
| 1917 | — | — | 13 | #2,272 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #2,033 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,437 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,854 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,715 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).