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Svante
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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
1) Swedish short form of Svantepolk (see Svantopolk) [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Pet form of Sven (see Svæinn) [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
| Svante | ♂ |   |
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| Swante | ♂ |  |
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| Svantte | ♂ |  |
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| Vante | ♂ | |
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| Vantte | ♂ |  |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Svante |
| Genitive: | Svantes |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Svante |
| Genitive: | Svanten |
| Partitive: | Svantea |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Svante |
| Genitive: | Svantes |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Svante |
| Genitive: | Svantes |
Name Days
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10 June |
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10 June |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Sweden: Västergötland (19th century) see map [5]
Namesakes
- Svante Nilsson (Sture), Swedish regent (1460 - 1512)
- Svante August Arrhenius (19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927), Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate
(Chemistry, 1903) - Karl Gunnar Svante Thuresson (born 7 February 1937), Swedish musician and singer
- Svante Pääbo, (born 20 April 1955), Swedish geneticist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2022)
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[6] |
 |
4956 | 8273 | 0 | 0 | 4956 | 8273 |
| Finland[7] |
|
n.a. |
1623 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
1623 |
| Denmark[8] |
|
94 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
94 | n.a. |
| Norway[9] |
|
27 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
27 | n.a. |
 Greenland[10] |
  |
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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [11]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Svante (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables