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Sylvia

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Silvia (see also -ia) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Silvia

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Sylviuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Sylviudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sylvia
Genitive: Sylvias
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Sylvia
Accusative: Sylviu
Dative: Sylviu
Genitive: Sylviu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sylvia
Genitive: Sylvian
Partitive: Sylviaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Sylvia
Accusative: Sylviu
Dative: Sylviu
Genitive: Sylviu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sylvia
Genitive: Sylvias
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sylvia
Genitive: Sylvias

Name Days

Finland Finland

8 August

Norway Norway

31 December

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

8 August

Sweden Sweden

8 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sylvias hälsning från Sicilien (Swedish, 'Sylvia's Greeting from Sicily') is a poem by Zachris Topelius from 1853, which was composed to a christmas carol. The Finnish translation Sylvian joululaulu (Finnish, 'Sylvia's Christmas carol' from 1918 is one of the most beloved Finnish christmas carols.

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[11]
n.a.
 15112
n.a.
 15112 0 0
Sweden Sweden[12]
3093 8672 3093 8670 0 2
Denmark Denmark[13]
302
n.a.
 302
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
6 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
4 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
1104
n.a.
 1104
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Sylvia (f)


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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