Edvard

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Male Name

Usage

Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Edward ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Eadweard

Name Days

Faroe Islands

18 March

Finland

18 March

Norway

18 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

18 March

Sweden

18 March

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Edvard
Accusative:	Edvard
Dative:	Edvardi
Genitive:	Edvards

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Edvard
Accusative:	Edvard
Dative:	Edvard
Genitive:	Edvards

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1620 ^[1]

Namesakes

Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer and pianist (1843-1907)

Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist (1863-1944)

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	1623	2203
Sweden[4]		0	1	1000	8490
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	446	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	7	n.a	21420
#: 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^[4][5][3][6]:

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