Love

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Swedish variant form of Lovis ^[1]

Related Names

See Lovis

Name Day

Sweden

2 October

Further Information

Pronunciation

Swedish: [ˌluːvə]

Namesakes

Carl Jonas Ludvig (Love) Almqvist (28 November 1793 - 26 September 1866), Swedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		116	486	2713	5856
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	4	n.a
Norway[4]		0	8	0	15
Finland[5]		n.a.	21	n.a	55
#: 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^[2][3][4][5]:

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

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