Alva

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Alv (see Alf) ^[1]

2) Female form of Alvar ^[1]

Related Names

Alva	♀
Alwa	♀

See also Alvina

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

21 February

Sweden

3 September

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Alva
Accusative:	Ölvu
Dative:	Ölvu
Genitive:	Ölvu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1845 ^[1]

Namesakes

Alva Myrdal, 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel laureate (Peace, 1982)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		10528	13593	1	2
Norway[3]		439	711	0	0
Denmark[4]		131	n.a.	3	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	463	n.a	11
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[2][4][3][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

Sources: ^{[2] [4] [3] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi