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Ylva

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish byname

Female form of Ulf (see UlfR) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Ylfa ♀
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 Danish Icelandic Swedish
Ýlfa ♀
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 Icelandic
Ylfur ♀
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 Icelandic
Ylfva ♀
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 Old Swedish Swedish
Ylva ♀
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Ylwa ♀
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Ylwah ♀
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Ölfva ♀
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 Old Swedish

See also Ulfva, Ilva, Ylvan, Ylvi

For male forms see Ylve

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ylvuson Iceland

Female

Ylvudóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see YLVA (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ylva
Genitive: Ylvas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ylva
Genitive: Ylvan
Partitive: Ylvaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ylva
Accusative: Ylvu
Dative: Ylvu
Genitive: Ylvu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ylva
Genitive: Ylvas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ylva
Genitive: Ylvas

Name Days

Norway Norway

11 April

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

13 September

Sweden Sweden

11 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 6,976 people were named Ylva (percentage of first or only given name: 86 %) [7]
  • Ylva was a heavy storm in Norway in November 2017.

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[8]
7566 10637 7566 10635 0 2
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 402
n.a.
 402 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
62
n.a.
 62
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
22 38
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
1917
n.a.
 1917
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Ylva (f) Sources: [8][9][11][6]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Ylva (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  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
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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