Arve

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Arved (see Arviðr) ^{[1] [2]}

2) Swedish arve = 'heir' ^[1]

Related Names

Arve	♂

Name Day

Norway

1 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1619 ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Østfold, Telemark and Buskerud (around 1800), Sør-Austlandet (around 1900), Vestlandet and Nordafjells (1930-1940) ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		0	0	3440	4650
Sweden[4]		0	0	96	179
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	11	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	4	n.a	12
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [3] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi