Given name & surname
Swen
“a youthful man; a lad”
Swen is a variant of Sven. One interpretation is “a youthful man; a lad.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Swen is a variant of Sven. One interpretation is “a youthful man; a lad.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Swen is a variant of Sven. An origin associated with Sven is Old Norse.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Swen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 56
- 56 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 9 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 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 211 as a first name in 2020; 329 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Swen’s family of names
Swen has a related form in Sven. In German usage, Swen has a conventional equivalent in the Swedish form Sven.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Swen
- Swen NaterDutch basketball player (born 1950)
- Swen VinckeBelgian video game designer, programmer and directorborn 1972
- Swen KönigSwiss footballerborn 1985
- Swen SwensonAmerican actor1930–1993
- Swen LagerbergSwedish politician (1672-1746)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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