Entry № 10195 · Swedish origin

Svea Svea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SVAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swedish
Meaning
"Personification of Sweden (Mother Svea)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Swedish)

A name that means "personification of sweden (mother svea)".

Svea is from the Old Swedish Svea — the personification of Sweden (literally meaning "of the Sveas," the Swedish people). Princess Svea — modern Swedish royal heritage.

Personification of Sweden.

The name in its native script.

Svea
Transliteration
Svea
Pronunciation
/ ˈsveɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Svea stands.

Svea does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sveas before her.

Real people
Svea Norén
Swedish Olympic figure skater 1920.
1895 – 1985
In fiction
Mother Svea
Swedish national personification.

Names connected to Svea.

The number behind Svea.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Svea reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.