Ylva

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Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Female form of Ulf (see UlfR) ^[1]

Related Names

Ulfva	♀
Ylfva	♀
Ylva	♀
Ölfva	♀

Name Days

Norway

11 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

13 September

Sweden

11 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1881 (in modern times) ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		7424	10111	0	0
Norway[3]		629	1006	0	0
Denmark[4]		35	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	282	n.a	1
#: 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^[2][4][3][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi