Edvard
Meaning
“Scandinavian form of Edward, Old English for wealth and guardian; famously borne by Edvard Munch, whose The Scream distilled modern anxiety into one face.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Edvard has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
433 people · the #14,773 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 58
Among people named Edvard living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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