Salve

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish and Norwegian younger form of Salvi (see Sǫlvi) [1] [2] [3]

2) Latin salve = 'hail! welcome! farewell!' (see also Ave and Vale) [1]

Related Names

Salve
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

For female forms see Salmine, Salvina

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Salvesen Norway
Salvessen Norway

Female

Salvesdatter Norway

Grammar

Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Salve
Genitive: Salves
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Salve
Genitive: Salves

Name Day

Norway Norway

20 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

  • Norway:
    • 1900-1930 [3]
    • until ca 1920 (Vest-Agder) [2]
    • until ca 1950 (Aust-Agder) [2]

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[4]
5 9 2 3 3 6
Denmark Denmark[5]
3
n.a.
3
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
6 0 0
n.a.
6
Norway Norway[7]
72
n.a.
5
n.a.
67
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Salve.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/