Given name & surname

Swegen

Swegen is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Old English.

Original Old NorseSveinn

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Swegen comes from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old Norse Sveinn.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Swegen’s family of names

In Old English usage, Swegen was borrowed from the Old Norse form Sveinn.

Walk Swegen’s family in the name graph

SwegenSweinSwegnSveinn

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Swegen, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old Norse

Svensen

“son of Sven”

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Old Norse

Svendsen

“son of Svend”

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Old Norse

Schwen

Schwen is a given name from Old Norse. It is used in German.

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Old Norse

Østen

Østen is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Old Swedish.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse · Nature

Støren

“pole” · “meadow”

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Old Norse

Wögen

Wögen is a given name, possibly from Old Norse. It is used in German.

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Old Norse

Sweyn

“boy, servant”

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>99% boys

Old English

Swainston

“enclosure; settlement, town”

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Swegen’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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