Given name
Edvard
“a wealthy protector”
Edvard is a form of Edward. One English interpretation is “a wealthy protector.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Edvard is a form of Edward. One English interpretation is “a wealthy protector.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Edvard is a form of Edward. An origin associated with Edward is Old English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Edvard developed from Edward.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Edvard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,033 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,033 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 404 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Edvard’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Edvard developed from the English form Edward. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Edvard has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Eduardo. Edvard has a related form in Edward.
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Around the world
Edvard has relatives in 17 languages.
15 related names in 17 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- EduardoPortuguese, Spanish
- Eddyequivalent
- Eduardalso known as · German, Swedish
- Edoardoequivalent
- Edequivalent
- Edeequivalent
- Duarteequivalent
- Edouardequivalent
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- Eideequivalent
- Ingvardequivalent
- Eduartequivalent
- Eduardasequivalent
- Eduardsequivalent
- Eduardusequivalent
- Odoardoequivalent
- Эдвардequivalent
- Eetuequivalent
- Iorwerthequivalent
- Edvardsen“son of” surname · Danish
- Audvarddoublet · Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål
- Eyðvarðurdoublet · Faroese
- ΕδουάρδοςGreek
- ЭдуардRussian
- ÉdouardFrench
- Eðvarðcognate · Icelandic
People named Edvard
- Edvard MunchNorwegian painter (1863–1944)
- Edvard GriegNorwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)
- Edvard BenešCzechoslovak politician (1884-1948)
- Edvard MoserNorwegian psychologist and neuroscientistborn 1962
- Edvard KardeljYugoslav politician (1910–1979)
- Edward Turner BennettBritish zoologist (1797–1836)
- Edvard WestermarckFinnish academic (1862–1939)
- Edvard KocbekSlovenian writer (1904-1981)
- Edvard RadzinskyRussian historianborn 1936
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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