Svante

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Modern Swedish short form of Svantepolk (see Svantopolk) ^[1]

2) Pet form of Sven (see Svæinn) ^[1]

Related Names

Svante	♂
Swante	♂
Svantte	♂
Vante	♂
Vantte	♂

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

10 June

Sweden

10 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1434 ^[1]

Namesakes

Svante Nilsson (Sture), Swedish regent (1460 - 1512)

Svante August Arrhenius, 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927, Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1903)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	0	4050	7073
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	61	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	14	25
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	1577
#: 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