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Pages in category "Scandinavian masculine given names" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Norwegian masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 277 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In Norway it reached the peak of its popularity between 1910 and 1930, during which period approximately 1% of children were given the name. [3] The name is a combination of the words as, i.e. a god in the Norse pantheon, and bjørn, meaning bear. [4] (Bjørn can also be used as a given name by itself.)
Sven, the name of a puffin in Happy Feet Two; Sven, a Nord character in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; Sven and Ole, a character in a type of joke told by Scandinavian-Americans; Sven Joergenson, Sven Pilson and Sven Johansson, from the series How I Met Your Mother; Sven, the name of PewDiePie's pet wolf in his Minecraft YouTube series
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Odd, a name of Old Norse origin (Oddr), the 11th most common male name in Norway. It is rarely used in other countries, though sometimes appearing in other Nordic countries. In Old Norse the word means sharp end of an arrow or edge of blade. An Icelandic and Faroese form of the name is Oddur.
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.
The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland. Straumsey ("Current-isle") lies at the mouth of Straumfjörð. Suðreyjar "Southern islands". Hebrides. Suðrvegr "South way", Germany. [3 ...