Bo

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish, Old Danish and modern form of Boe ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Búi

Name Days

Norway

5 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

18 August

Sweden

5 June

Further Information

Namesakes

Bo Jonsson Grip (early 1330s – 20th August, 1386), head of the royal council and marshal under the regency of Magnus IV of Sweden and from 1369, during Albert of Sweden’s reign, Officialis Generalis (the king's highest official) and from 1371 drots (= Lord High Steward)

Bo Bergman, 6th October, 1869 – 17th November, 1967, Swedish writer, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy

Bo "Bosse" Johansson, Swedish former football player and current football coach (* 1942)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		33	102	45124	90158
Denmark[4]		15	n.a.	11542	n.a
Norway[5]		8	17	211	716
Finland[6]		n.a.	23	n.a	2699
#: 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][4][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi