Edvard

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Edward

Related Names

See Eadweard

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Edvardsen
Edvardsson

Female

Edvardsdatter
Edvardsdotter
Edvardsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Edvard
Genitive:	Edvards

- Faroese
Nominative:	Edvard
Accusative:	Edvard
Dative:	Edvardi
Genitive:	Edvards

- Finnish
Nominative:	Edvard
Genitive:	Edvardin
Partitive:	Edvardia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Edvard
Accusative:	Edvard
Dative:	Edvard
Genitive:	Edvards

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Edvard
Genitive:	Edvards

- Swedish
Nominative:	Edvard
Genitive:	Edvards

Name Days

Faroe Islands

18 March

Finland

18 March

Norway

18 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

18 March

Sweden

18 March

Until 1911 an additional Norwegian name day was on 5 January

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 12th century
• Norway: 16th century
• Sweden: 1620
• Iceland: in the census of 1845

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • -1910
• Sweden:
  • 1865-1919
  • 1885-1909
• Norway:
  • early 20th century
  • 1990-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
• Norway:
  • Vestlandet (esp. Møre og Romsdal)
  • Trøndelag
  • Nordland
• Sweden:
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Gotland (20th century)
  • Nordsverige (20th century)

Namesakes

• Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907), Norwegian composer and pianist
• Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944), Norwegian painter
• Carl Edvard Persson (17 January 1888 – 19 September 1957), Swedish actor and singer
• Edvard Ingjald Moser (born 27 April 1962), Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2013)

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 18,042 people were named Edvard (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %)

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		n.a.	22405	n.a.	5	n.a.	22400
Sweden		1292	8074	0	0	1292	8074
Denmark		335	n.a.	0	n.a.	335	n.a.
Greenland		118	398	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		23	28	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		3114	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	3114	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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Edvard (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.