According to IKEA’s guide to its product names, sofas are named after Swedish places. A name has to be a real word of 4 to 12 letters, ideally with an å, ä or ö, and never a surname or a trademark. The guide doesn’t cover armchairs, but most of them follow the same pattern. Since 1 December 2020, new products have been given Swedish names only, according to Fokus. From the 1980s until then, names were also taken from Danish and Norwegian.
Names, prices and photos are from IKEA Sweden’s website, September 2026. Places are from OpenStreetMap. Where several places share a name, all of them are on the map, since IKEA doesn’t say which one it had in mind. ESSEBODA is pinned to Södra Esseboda, the closest match, and LILLESÄTER is missing from OpenStreetMap, so I placed it by hand. The data is available on GitHub.
Georgios Karamanis
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