Svein

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Norwegian younger form of Sveinn [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Sveinn

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Svein
Genitive: Sveins
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Svein
Genitive: Sveinin
Partitive: Sveiniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Svein
Genitive: Sveins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Svein
Genitive: Sveins

Name Day

Norway Norway

3 December

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Namesakes

  • Svein Døvle Larssen (20 April 1928 – 23 January 2015), Norwegian newspaper editor

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 Sweden[4]
207 275 0 0 207 275
Denmark Denmark[5]
47
n.a.
0
n.a.
47
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
26 0 0
n.a.
26
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
23547
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
23547
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 Svein (m) Sources: [4][5][8][6]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Svein (m) Sources: [9]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Svein (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. details see Name Statistic tables