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Kaleva

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Kaleva is a name from the Finnish mythology. The origin and meaning is unknown. Two theories:

1) Lithuanian kálvis = 'smith'

2) Estonian kalev = 'red cloth'

Related Names

Gállagas ♂
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 Sami
Kalev ♂
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 Finish Swedish
Kaleva ♂
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 Finish Swedish
Kalewa ♂
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 Finish
Kalevi ♂
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 Finish Swedish

See also Kake, Kalervo, Kalle, Kapu, Kassu

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kaleva
Genitive: Kalevan
Partitive: Kalevaa
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kaleva
Genitive: Kalevas

Name Day

Finland Finland

10 September

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Mythology

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Kaleva (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [1]

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&
Finland Finland[2]
n.a.
 3079
n.a.
 6
n.a.
 3073
Sweden Sweden[3]
2 53 0 0 2 53
Denmark Denmark[4]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[5]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[6]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Kaleva.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  2. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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