Sweden

Meaning

As a given name, Sweden is best understood as a place-name name: it points back to the Scandinavian country rather than to an older personal-name root. The excerpted sources only show Sweden as a country-name reference, not as a traditional given name with a separate etymology. In ordinary onomastic use, it therefore carries the literal sense of being Swedish or connected with Sweden.

Origin

Fun fact

It’s much more common as a geographic name than as a personal name, so most people encounter it first as the country rather than as a given name.