Boy · Old Norse
Arvid
Say it: AR-vid
Meaning
From Old Norse Arnviðr: ǫrn 'eagle' and viðr 'tree, wood'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
An old Swedish name in fashion again in recent decades.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1910s
In the United States
- 3,113 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1916, about 1 in 8,900 boys
- 13 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Old Norse | Arnviðr |
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Where this comes from
- Medieval European charters and records
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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