Sven

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

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

Related Names

See Sveinn

Combinations

For combinations see SVEIN (name element)

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

21 August

Sweden

5 December

Further Information

Namesakes

Sven-Bertil Gunnar Evert Taube (*24th November, 1934), Swedish singer and actor

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		6	13	47251	113813
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	3062	n.a
Norway[6]		0	0	928	4209
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	6740
#: 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^[4][5][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi