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Liv

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Líf [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Líf

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Livarson Iceland

Female

Livardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Liv
Genitive: Livs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Liv
Genitive: Livin
Partitive: Liviä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Liv
Accusative: Liv
Dative: Liv
Genitive: Livar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Liv
Genitive: Livs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Liv
Genitive: Livs

Name Days

Norway Norway

2 October

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

29 May

Sweden Sweden

12 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938), Norwegian actress and film director

Trivia

  • LIV represents the number 54 in Roman numerals. This is completely unrelated of the use as a name, however.
  • Liv was name of the week on Nordic Names in week 2-2021

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[9]
5040 8834 5036 8822 4 12
Denmark Denmark[10]
4300
n.a.
 4299
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 304
n.a.
 304 0 0
Iceland Iceland[12]
17 59
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
7 12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
22150
n.a.
 22150
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 Liv (f) Sources: [9][10][14][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Liv (f) Sources: [15]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Liv (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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