Björn

See also: björn, bjǫrn, Bjǫrn, bjørn, and Bjørn

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Björn

1. a male given name borrowed from Swedish in the 1930s.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pjœrtn]
• Rhymes: -œrtn

Proper noun

Björn

1. a male given name meaning ‘bear’ (see björn)

Declension

declension of Björn

m-s3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Björn	Björninn	Birnir	Birnirnir
accusative	Björn	Björninn	Birni	Birnina
dative	Birni	Birninum	Björnum	Björnunum
genitive	Björns / Bjarnar	Björnsins / Bjarnarins	Bjarna	Bjarnanna

Related terms

• Bjarni

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Bjǫrn, from bjǫrn (“bear”), with identical meaning in modern Swedish. Runic name revived since 1816. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bjørn.

Proper noun

Björn c (genitive Björns)

1. a male given name.
2. (rare) a surname

Related terms

• (male given names) Bjarne, Esbjörn, Torbjörn
• (surnames) Björnsson

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 61 321 males with the given name Björn (and 1708 persons with the surname Björn) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.