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Elva

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Female Female Name

Usage

Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Alva (Swedish älva = 'elf, fairy') [1] [2] [3]

2) Short form of Elvira [1] [4] [2]

3) Swedish elva = 'eleven' (= eleventh child) [1] [4] [5] [2]

4) Swedish älv, Icelandic elfa = 'river' [2]

5) Female form of Elvar [6]

Related Names

Elfa ♀
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Elfva ♀
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 Swedish
Ellva ♀ Swedish
Elva ♀
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 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Elwa ♀
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 Finish Swedish
Älva ♀
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 Swedish

For pet forms see also Ella and Elvan and Elvi

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Elvuson Iceland

Female

Elvudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elva
Genitive: Elvas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elva
Genitive: Elvan
Partitive: Elvaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Elva
Accusative: Elvu
Dative: Elvu
Genitive: Elvu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elva
Genitive: Elvas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elva
Genitive: Elvas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

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&
Iceland Iceland[9]
322 516
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
515
n.a.
 515
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
129 419 129 419 0 0
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 31
n.a.
 31 0 0
Norway Norway[13]
36
n.a.
 36
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
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 Elva (f) Sources: [11][10][13][12]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2023).
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1890 https://riksarkivet.se/
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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