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Pages in category "Scandinavian masculine given names" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Swedish masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 235 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Anders is a male name in Scandinavian languages and Fering North Frisian, an equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. It originated from Andres via metathesis. [1] In Sweden, Anders has been one of the most common names for many centuries, earliest attested in 1378. It was common for priests and farmers during medieval ...
Because the Scandinavian languages differ in their pronunciation of the digraphs ei and ej , the name Leif may be either pronounced as an approximate rhyme for "safe", or approximately like the English word "life", In Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Western Norway, it is an approximate rhyme with "safe".
Sven is a Scandinavian masculine first name. In Old Norse the meaning was "young man" or "servant" and the original Old Norse spelling was sveinn. [1]Variants such as Svend are found in Danish and Norwegian. [1]
Rune is a unisex, though predominantly masculine given name derived from the Old Norse word rún, meaning "secret".It is earliest attested in a runestone as runi. [1] It is a common name in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and popular in Belgium, where it ranked in top thirty names for baby boys in 2006 and was the tenth most popular name for boys in 2006 in the Flemish Region of Belgium. [2]
Ivar (Old Norse Ívarr) is a Scandinavian masculine given name. Another variant of the name is Iver, which is more common in Norway. The Old Norse name has several possible etymologies. In North Germanic phonology, several of the elements common to Germanic names became homophonous.