Given name & surname
Sverre
“to swing around, spin; move violently”·“troublemaker; wild, restless person”
Sverre is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk.
Original Old NorseSverrir
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sverre is built from elements meaning “to swing around, spin; move violently” and “troublemaker; wild, restless person”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sverre through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1913
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1916. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1913.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sverre’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Sverre shares a linguistic root with the Faroese form Sverri. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Sverre continues an earlier form in SVERRIR. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Sverre shares a linguistic root with the Icelandic form SVERRIR.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sverre
- Sverre of Norwayking of Norway1151–1202
- Prince Sverre Magnus of NorwayNorwegian prince (born 2005)
- Sverre FehnNorwegian architect (1924-2009)
- Sverre Lunde PedersenNorwegian speed skaterborn 1992
- Sverre HasselNorwegian Antarctic explorer (1876-1928)
- Sverre StenersenNorwegian Nordic combined skier (1926-2005)
- Sverre NypanNorwegian footballerborn 2006
- Sverre Farstadspeed skater (1920–1978)
- Sverre KjelsbergNorwegian actor, singer and musician (1946–2016)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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