Arvid

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Arviðr and Arvidh ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Arviðr

Name Days

Norway

1 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

31 August

Sweden

31 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 1870 ^[2]

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Troms ^[2]

Namesakes

Friherre (= Baron) Arvid Bernhard Horn af Ekebyholm (6th April 1664 – 17th April 1742), Swedish soldier, diplomat and politician

Per Arvid Emil Carlsson, * 25 January 1923, Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2000)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	0	7635	19700
Norway[4]		0	0	4029	6294
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	366	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	6	n.a	12478
#: 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^[3][5][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

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