The Svoboda surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,686 people carried this name — #6,043 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 51,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 5,555 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Svoboda surname
From Czech Svoboda, from svoboda (“freedom”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Svoboda» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 150 people named Svoboda live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Chaco.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
123 people named Svoboda live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 80 people named Svoboda.
24 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
42 people named Svoboda is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Svoboda in American newspapers,
1904–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 14,580 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Svoboda,
with a public archive behind them.
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Eduard Svoboda 1878–1958 · technician -
Otakar Svoboda 1880–1930 · mayor -
Adolf Svoboda 1900–1969 · politician -
Aleš Svoboda 1941–2010 · writer -
Terese Svoboda 1950– · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 209 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Svoboda.
- Suss 445 · U.S. census
- Suter 5,648 · U.S. census
- Sutter 9,760 · U.S. census
- Sutterlin 287 · U.S. census
- Sutton 90,964 · U.S. census
- Suzan 102 · U.S. census
- Swiatek 1,381 · U.S. census
- Swider 1,452 · U.S. census
- Swiderski 1,864 · U.S. census
- Switala 474 · U.S. census
- Sy 4,457 · U.S. census
- Sydor 322 · U.S. census
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