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Svend.

a male given name from Danish

5 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

name/sʋɛn/[sʋɛn]/sʋɛnd/[sʋɛnd]
  1. a male given name from Danish

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Danish Svend m, the Danish form of Svein, ultimately from Old Norse Sveinn m, originally a byname based on the common noun sveinn (“boy, young man, servant”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Svend and Faroese Svend (“male given name”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.