Thorvald

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish form of Þórvaldr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Þórvaldr

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Thorvald
Genitive: Thorvalds
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Thorvald
Accusative: Thorvald
Dative: Thorvald
Genitive: Thorvalds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Thorvald
Genitive: Thorvaldin
Partitive: Thorvaldia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Thorvald
Genitive: Thorvalds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Thorvald
Genitive: Thorvalds

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Thorvald August Marinus Stauning (26 October 1873 – 3 May 1942), Danish politician and first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark (1924 - 1926 and 1929 until his death in 1942)
  • Thorvald Stoltenberg (born 8 July 1931), Norwegian politician

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&
Denmark Denmark[6]
313
n.a.
0
n.a.
313
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
67 464 0 0 67 464
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
286 0 0
n.a.
286
Greenland Greenland[9]
31 109
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
6 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
445
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
445
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 Thorvald (m) Sources: [7][6][11][8]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Thorvald (m)


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no