Edvald

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Evald (see Ewald) [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) New combination of an English form of the name element AUD with a Nordic one of VALD [2] [4]

Related Names

Edvald
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Eðvald
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic
Edvall
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish

See also Hedvald, Redvald

For female forms see Edvaldine

Cognates

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Edvaldsson Iceland

Female

Edvaldsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Edvald
Genitive: Edvaldin
Partitive: Edvaldia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Edvald
Accusative: Edvald
Dative: Edvald
Genitive: Edvalds
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Edvald
Genitive: Edvalds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Edvald
Genitive: Edvalds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Edvald Boasson Hagen (born 17 May 1987), Norwegian road racing cyclist

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 34 people were named Edvald (percentage of first or only given name: 9 %) [5]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
3 19 0 0 3 19
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
15 0 0
n.a.
15
Denmark Denmark[8]
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
1
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
91
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
91
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Edvald (m) Sources: [6][8][10][7]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/