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[Facts] Svante (Swedish regent)

by Frank (guest)

8/9/2005, 6:49 AM

Svante is listed as the name of a Swedish regent, yet there is no other information available about this name. Could any more be said? (Gender, meaning, etc.).

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- Satu (_satu_) +1

8/9/2005, 12:15 PM

Hi Frank,

See here for more information about Svante:

http://www.nordicnames.de/pojk_s/Svante.html

/ Satu

- Frank (guest)

8/11/2005, 9:00 PM

Great site. Thanks a mill, Satu!

- Ylva +1

8/9/2005, 7:50 AM

I've read that Svante is a short form of Svantopolk, a Vendish (?) name. And it is definitely male!

- Frankk (guest)

8/12/2005, 5:39 AM

Thanks to you too, Ilva!

- Evaria +1

8/9/2005, 7:26 AM

It is probably a male name of Slavic origin meaning "holy". One of the main Slavic gods is called Svantevid ("holy ruler"). A famous person bearing that name is Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903.

- Frankk (guest)

8/11/2005, 9:02 PM

Thanks for the response, Evaria. Very complete!

Originally, I had wondered whether it was at all related to the Frisian woman's name Swantje (small swan/kleiner Schwan). I could not have been further from the truth!

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