Sven
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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.
Key facts
- Given name.name
- Sven
- Given name.gender
- Male
- Given name.meaning
- Young manyoung warrior
- Given name.origin
- Old Norse
- Given name.variant forms
- Svend, Svein, Sveinn
- Given name.related names
- Svenja (female form)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- male given name
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- name day
- December 5
- given name version for other gender
- Svenja
- native label
- Sven
- language of work or name
- Dutch
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- S150
- Cologne phonetics
- 836
- Caverphone
- SFN1111111
- Commons category
- Sven (given name)
- described by source
- Wiktionary
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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.
Variants such as Svend are found in Danish and Norwegian. Another variant, Svein is used in Norway, the Low Countries, and German-speaking countries, and is cognate with the English surname Swain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sven” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.