Given name
Esbjörn
“god”·“bear”
Esbjörn is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Swedish.
Original Old NorseÁsbjǫrn
Meaning & origin
What it means
Esbjörn is built from elements meaning “god” and “bear”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
How it developed
Its Old Norse formation brings together áss (“god, divinity”) and björn (“bear”).
Esbjörn’s family of names
Esbjörn has an affectionate form in Ebbe. Esbjörn shares a linguistic root with Asbjørn. In Swedish usage, Esbjörn has a conventional equivalent in the Icelandic form Ásbjörn.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Ásbjǫrnolder form · Old Norse
- Jesperequivalent
- Esbencognate
- Asbjörnequivalent
- Björnequivalent
- ÁsbjörnIcelandic
- ÁsbjørnFaroese
- Esberncognate
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