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Pages in category "Swedish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 751 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Olga Pankova/Getty Images. This girl name of Old Norse origin has a vintage feel and a meaning of “beautiful and feminine.” Bless. 16. Elsa. Meaning: “Joyful” and “noble.”
Surnames are inherited from the parents in the order of "same as elder sibling, if any, specified by parents, or mother's last name," and given names must be chosen by the parents at birth. The calling name (Swedish: tilltalsnamn), by which the person is normally identified in conversation, is one of the given names but not necessarily the ...
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Björk, Björck, Biörck, or Bjork is a Swedish surname meaning birch.It is also an Icelandic name given to girls, meaning birch, specifically the most common native tree of Iceland, Betula pubescens tortuosa (Arctic downy birch).
Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.