The agricultural land where the modern suburb now stands, has a history stretching some 2,000 years back (i.e. at least twice as old as Stockholm). The people who lived there were known as "vaellingar", "those living on the embankment". While it first appears in historical records in 1347 and it is known that two farmyards existed here during the reign of King Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, in the 1922 edition of "Nordisk Familjebok" the location was still regarded as too insignificant to deserve an article. In 1953 the number of inhabitants barely exceeded 2,000.