Tove f

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

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Danish modern form of Tófa ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Tófi

Name Days

Norway

2 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

12 December

Sweden

5 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1886 ^[1]

Namesakes

Tove Marika Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001), Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		18789	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		8083	14912	0	0
Sweden[5]		5613	6848	12	31
Finland[6]		n.a.	690	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^[5][3][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
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. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi