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Female Name
Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Líf [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Líf
Male
Livarson
|
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Female
Livardóttir
|
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Liv
|
Genitive: |
Livs
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Liv
|
Genitive: |
Livin
|
Partitive: |
Liviä
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Liv
|
Accusative: |
Liv
|
Dative: |
Liv
|
Genitive: |
Livar
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Liv
|
Genitive: |
Livs
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Liv
|
Genitive: |
Livs
|
Name Days
Norway
|
2 October
|
Finland (Swedish Language)
|
29 May
|
Sweden
|
12 April
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938), Norwegian actress and film director
Trivia
- LIV represents the number 54 in Roman numerals. This is completely unrelated of the use as a name, however.
- Liv was name of the week on Nordic Names in week 2-2021
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[9] |
|
5040 |
8834 |
5036 |
8822 |
4 |
12 |
Denmark[10] |
|
4300 |
n.a. |
4299 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
304 |
n.a. |
304 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[12] |
|
17 |
59 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
7 |
12 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
22150 |
n.a. |
22150 |
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
Sources: [9][10][14][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables