scb_name_length_data_Sweden_Stockholm_2019 (SCB's Name Length Data in Sweden and Stockholm)

Appendix A in this paper contains a real-world name length data for the whole of Sweden as well as Stockholm Municipality (Swedish: Stockholms kommun) as of 31 December 2019. It excludes names that either belong to people with protected identities or are suspiciously incorrect due to errors in petition. But these excluded numbers are low and should not matter for statistical purposes.

The data are in the forms first name || last name (fl) and first name || maiden name || last name (fml). The name lengths are counted straight off with no spaces between different parts of the name.

It could be useful for security and privacy research, e.g., to evaluate message expansion of different padding schemes.

Source: Swedish government agency SCB (Statistiska centralbyrån) https://www.scb.se/.