Halvard

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Hallvard

Related Names

See Hallvarðr

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Halvard
Genitive:	Halvards

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Halvard
Genitive:	Halvards

- Swedish
Nominative:	Halvard
Genitive:	Halvards

Name Day

Sweden

14 May

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 1915-1955
• Sweden:
  • 1900-1939
  • 1910-1929

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Dalarna (20th century)
  • Gotland (20th century)
  • Värmland (19th century) see map
  • Nordsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 1,672 people were named Halvard (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %)

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		46	471	0	0	46	471
Denmark		8	n.a.	0	n.a.	8	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	4	0	0	n.a.	4
Norway		1370	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	1370	n.a.
Greenland		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

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Halvard (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.