Svea

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

From the 17th century on, Svea has been a female personification of Sweden: Svea-rike = 'empire of the Swedes' ^[1]

The original inhabitants of Sweden called themselves Suebi . This name probably derives from Old German sweba = 'free'. Another theory is that it derives from geswion = 'kinsman'

Related Names

Svea	♀
Swea	♀

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

14 August

Sweden

2 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1818 ^[1]

Namesakes

Svea is the title of a poem written by Esaias Tegnér (written in 1811, published in 1817)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		5655	11062	0	0
Denmark[3]		112	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		16	42	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	2593	n.a	2
#: 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