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Sven
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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish and younger Swedish and Danish form of Sveinn [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Sveinn
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Svensen |
|
| Svenson |
|
| Svensson |
|
Female
| Svendatter |
|
| Svendotter |
|
| Svensdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sven |
| Genitive: | Svens |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sven |
| Genitive: | Svenin |
| Partitive: | Sveniä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sven |
| Genitive: | Svens |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Sven |
| Genitive: | Svens |
Name Days
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21 August |
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|
5 December |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Sweden: (1389?)
- Greenland: 1961 [8]
- Iceland: Officially rejected as a given name on 8 March 2005 and 8 November 2007 [9]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Sven-Bertil Gunnar Evert Taube (24 November 1934 - 11 November 2022), Swedish singer and actor
- Sven-Göran Eriksson (5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024), Swedish football player and manager
Trivia
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[12] |
  |
31118 | 99733 | 3 | 14 | 31115 | 99719 |
| Finland[13] |
  |
n.a. |
7443 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
7443 |
| Denmark[14] |
|
2457 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
2457 | n.a. |
 Iceland[15] |
  |
12 | 14 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greenland[16] |
  |
3 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[17] |
|
3851 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
3851 | 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: [18]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Sven (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables