Sylvi f

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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Sylvi m for the male version of this name.

Usage

Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) Norwegian dialectal form (Telemark) and Swedish variant form of Solveig (see Sǫlveig) ^[1]

2) Short form of Sylvia (see Silvia) ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Sylva	♀
Sylve	♀
Sylvi	♀

Name Days

Finland

8 August

Norway

31 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1895 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		544	1239	0	0
Sweden[4]		422	707	0	0
Denmark[5]		9	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	15077	n.a	3
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [3] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi