Björn

Borrowed from Swedish Björn in the 1930s.

• IPA^(key): /bjœʁn/

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Björn

1. a male given name

From björn (“bear”).

• IPA^(key): [pjœrtn]
• Rhymes: -œrtn

Björn m (proper noun, genitive singular Björns or Bjarnar)

1. a male given name

• Bjarni

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

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Björn c (genitive Björns)

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

A common nickname is Björsa.

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

• 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.