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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 .
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While Geir was practically unused as a given name prior to the 1930s (and since the 2000s), -geir is the second element in a number of given names inherited from Old Norse, the most popularly given being Asgeir and Torgeir. These are a remnant of a much larger group of names including the geirr element in Old Norse. [4]
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
In 2013, there were more than 7,000 men in Norway with this name. [2] 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]
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