Nordic Names

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Alva f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Alva m for the male version.

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Alv (see Alf) [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Female form of Alvar [1] [3] [4]

Related Names

Alfva ♀
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 Swedish
Alva ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Alwa ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Álva ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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 Faroese
Álvá ♀
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 Sami
Alvah ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

See also Alvia, Alvina

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Alvuson Faroe Islands
Ölvuson Iceland

Female

Alvudóttir Faroe Islands
Ölvudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Alva
Genitive: Alvas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Alva
Accusative: Alvu
Dative: Alvu
Genitive: Alvu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Alva
Genitive: Alvan
Partitive: Alvaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Alva
Accusative: Ölvu
Dative: Ölvu
Genitive: Ölvu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Alva
Genitive: Alvas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Alva
Genitive: Alvas

Name Days

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

21 February

Sweden Sweden

3 September

Further Information

Pronunciation

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Alva Myrdal, 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Peace, 1982)

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[10]
14856 19059 14851 19048 5 11
Denmark Denmark[11]
958
n.a.
 957
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 1402
n.a.
 1390
n.a.
 12
Iceland Iceland[13]
5 15
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
1741
n.a.
 1741
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[10][11][14][12]:Name statistics for Alva (f)

Sources: [10] [11] [14] [12]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[14]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Alva (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Alva (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Alva (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  6. ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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