Torvald

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Þórvaldr and Thorvald [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Þórvaldr

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Torvald
Genitive: Torvalds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Torvald
Genitive: Torvaldin
Partitive: Torvaldia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Torvald
Genitive: Torvalds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Torvald
Genitive: Torvalds

Name Days

Norway Norway

11 August

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

27 March

Sweden Sweden

17 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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[6]
250 1344 0 0 250 1344
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
1016 0 0
n.a.
1016
Denmark Denmark[8]
10
n.a.
0
n.a.
10
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
317
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
317
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Torvald (m)


References

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