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Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish form of Þórvaldr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Þórvaldr
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Thorvald
|
Genitive: |
Thorvalds
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Thorvald
|
Accusative: |
Thorvald
|
Dative: |
Thorvald
|
Genitive: |
Thorvalds
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Thorvald
|
Genitive: |
Thorvaldin
|
Partitive: |
Thorvaldia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Thorvald
|
Genitive: |
Thorvalds
|
- 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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[6] |
|
313 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
313 |
n.a. |
Sweden[7] |
|
67 |
464 |
0 |
0 |
67 |
464 |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
286 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
286 |
Greenland[9] |
|
31 |
109 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[10] |
|
6 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [7][6][11][8]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no