According to Statistics Sweden, the most popular baby names in the country last year were Alice and Noah.
Here are Sweden’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2020:
Girl Names
- Alice, 794 baby girls
- Maja, 670
- Elsa, 643
- Astrid, 607 (tie)
- Wilma, 607 (tie)
- Freja, 596
- Olivia, 587
- Selma, 578
- Alma, 577
- Ella, 575
Boy Names
- Noah, 758 baby boys
- William, 742
- Hugo, 712
- Lucas, 709
- Liam, 698
- Oscar, 671
- Oliver, 649
- Matteo, 646
- Elias, 642
- Adam, 602
In the girls’ top 10, Elsa, Freja and Selma replaced Lilly, Vera and Ebba.
The boys’ top 10 includes the same 10 names, but in a different order.
The names in Sweden’s top 100 that rose the fastest from 2019 to 2020 were Bonnie and Björn. The names that fell the fastest were Bianca and Wilmer.
In 2019, the top names were Alice and Lucas.
Source: Name Statistics – SCB
Image: Adapted from Flag of Sweden (public domain)
How is Maja pronounced? Ma-ha or Ma-zha? or something else entirely?
The letter “j” is pronounced like a “y” in Swedish, so I think Maja should sound similar to Maya.