Given name
Øyvind
“luck, good fortune”·“victor, victorious lord”
Øyvind is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Øyvind is a form of Eivind. Eivind is built from elements meaning “luck, good fortune” and “victor, victorious lord”.
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Where it comes from
Øyvind is a form of Eivind. Eivind comes from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Øyvind’s family of names
In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Øyvind shares an earlier linguistic root with EIVIND. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Øyvind has a related form in EIVIN. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Øyvind has a related form in EIVIND.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Øyvind
- Øyvind LeonhardsenNorwegian association football playerborn 1970
- Eyvindr skáldaspillirNorwegian poet and author910–990
- Øyvind BergNorwegian ski jumperborn 1971
- MustisNorwegian musicianborn 1979
- Øyvind StorflorNorwegian footballerborn 1979
- Øyvind SkaanesNorwegian cross-country skierborn 1968
- VinniNorwegian rapperborn 1976
- Øyvind SandbergNorwegian film director (1953–2021)
- Øyvind BergNorwegian writerborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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