Synnøve

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Norwegian dialectal variant form of Sunniva ^[1]

Related Names

See Sunniva

Name Day

Norway

8 July

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Møre og Romsdal ^[1]

Namesakes

"Synnøve Solbakken" (1857) novel by Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[2]		5153	6839	0	0
Denmark[3]		129	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[4]		12	44	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	5	n.a	5
#: 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][3][2][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[2]:

Sources: ^{[4] [3] [2] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi