Gunvor

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish
Sami

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and modern form of Gunnvǫr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Gunnvǫr

Name Days

Norway

3 April

Sami

25 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

25 March

Sweden

3 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Finland: 1884 ^[2]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Western Sweden, Southern Sweden ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		10337	20174	0	0
Norway[5]		2930	5205	0	0
Denmark[6]		441	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	2483	n.a	3
#: 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^[5]:

Sources: ^{[4] [6] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi