Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
[1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 26 305 males with the given name Svein living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.