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Svea

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

From the 17th century on, Svea has been a female personification of Sweden: Svea-rike = 'empire of the Swedes' [1] [2] [3]

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

Related Names

Svea ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Swea ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Sveuson Iceland

Female

Sveudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Svea
Genitive: Sveas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Svea
Genitive: Svean
Partitive: Sveaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Svea
Accusative: Sveu
Dative: Sveu
Genitive: Sveu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Svea
Genitive: Sveas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Svea
Genitive: Sveas

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 November

Sweden Sweden

2 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Svea is the title of a poem written by Esaias Tegnér (written in 1811, published in 1817)
  • Svea was a heavy storm in Sweden in January 2015.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
4622 11704 4622 11699 0 5
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 2736
n.a.
 2736 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
193
n.a.
 193
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
70
n.a.
 70
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Svea (f) Sources: [6][9][11][8]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Svea (f) Sources: [13]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Svea (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Svea (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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