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24-843: Bergvall is a Swedish surname . Notable people with the surname include: Agne Bergvall (born 1962), Swedish athletics coach Bjørn Bergvall (born 1939), Norwegian sailor Erik Bergvall (1880–1950), Swedish water polo player, journalist and sports official Helga Bergvall (1907-1978), Swedish author Joel Bergvall , Swedish filmmaker John Bergvall (1892–1959), Swedish politician Lucas Bergvall (born 2006), Swedish footballer, brother of Theo Sven Bergvall (1881–1960), Swedish actor Theo Bergvall (born 2004), Swedish footballer, brother of Lucas Thure Bergvall (1887–1950), Swedish long-distance runner See also [ edit ] Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000#695 [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

48-480: A latinised form of patronymic names: Lars Petersson, latinised as Laurentius Petri. They were not hereditary per se , as priests were not allowed to marry. From the time of the Reformation , the latinised form of their birthplace ( Laurentius Petri Gothus , from Östergötland ) became a common naming practice for the clergy. These names became hereditary. Another subsequent practice was the use of Greek with

72-476: A father's first name. Peter's children might be Jan and Roman Petrovich. Peter's grand children could be Aleksandr Janowicz and Ivan Romanowicz/ Romanovich. Peter's great grandchildren could be Nicolai Aleksandrovich and Dmitri Ivanovich. Nearly all Icelandic surnames are strictly patronymic, or in some cases matronymic , as Icelandic society generally does not make use of hereditary family names. A similar situation could, until relatively recently, be found in

96-434: A landowner, or living in an area might adopt the same crest, especially when landowners had to provide troops to their nation or king for battle. Scottish clans and tartans served as family or area identifiers. Of note, some Asian countries list family name first, most adapt to given plus family standard when abroad. Whereas, some Latino countries add mother's family name at the end. This onomastics -related article

120-405: A soldier with a small cottage and piece of land. The soldiers were often given names either describing their character (e.g. Modig 'brave', Skarp 'sharp' or Snygg 'clean') or weapons (e.g. Sabel 'sabre', Lans 'lance' or Sköld 'shield') or joining two elements from nature as above. The name often followed the cottage rather than the soldier. The soldiers' names became actual surnames during

144-431: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Swedish name In Sweden , a person must have a surname and one or more given names . Two given names are common. Surnames are inherited from the parents in the order of "same as elder sibling, if any, specified by parents, or mother's last name," and given names must be chosen by the parents at birth. The calling name ( Swedish : tilltalsnamn ), by which

168-560: The Late Middle Ages ; instead, patronymics were used. In Sweden , the patronymic endings are –sson by default or, now very rarely, for females, –sdotter , e.g. Karl sson or Karl sdotter ("Karl's son", "Karl's daughter"). The latter ending, if not from ancient times, are mostly recent creations, such as Amelia Ander sdotter and Karin Olof sdotter . They were gradually replaced by permanent surnames starting with

192-517: The nobility and clergy, followed by the middle classes. The vast majority of people adopted surnames only in the late 19th century, often by taking patronymic surnames . The adoption of Latin names was first used by the Catholic clergy in the 15th century as scholarly publications were written in Latin. The given name was preceded by Herr (Sir), like Herr Lars, Herr Olof, Herr Hans, followed by

216-446: The surname Bergvall . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bergvall&oldid=1243034044 " Categories : Surnames Swedish-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

240-529: The 17th and even more so in the 18th centuries, the Swedish middle classes in the 17th century, particularly artisans and town dwellers, adopted family names in imitation of the gentry . Ornamental family names joining two elements from birthplace or nature, such as Bergman ("mountain man"), Holmberg ("island mountain"), Lindgren ("linden branch"), Sandström ("sand stream") and Åkerlund ("field grove") were quite frequent and remain common today. During

264-539: The 19th centuries respectively denote nobility, often in combination with a change to the original name. Examples include Carl Linnæus (also Carolus Linnæus) ennobled Carl von Linné, or af Donner from the German name Donner . When a nobleman was raised to higher rank to friherre or greve , the new branch became its own house with a new name, often by appending af and a place name: Wachtmeister af Björkö , Wachtmeister af Johannishus , Wachtmeister af Mälsåker . In

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288-454: The 19th century, the patronymics became permanent "son names". Before Sweden's Family Name Regulation Act (släktnamnsförordningen) of 1901, the patronymic was more widely used than the surname. Another source of surnames was the Swedish allotment system , which from the mid-to-late 17th century was organised to maintain a standing army, and a number of farms were grouped together and supported

312-413: The 19th century. To disambiguate between several people with the same name in a community or parish, additional descriptions, usually the name of a farm, such as ( Anders Larsson vid Dammen , 'Swedish Anders Larsson by the damm ) could be used colloquially but were not always recorded in church records. In the region of Dalecarlia , the farm names (Swedish: gårdsnamn ) are often unique and put first in

336-755: The Swedish Tax Agency (Swedish Skatteverket ). Some names may be denied if they go against Swedish naming law. Some names have been denied are: Patronymic surname In the Old Testament of the Bible, men are identified by their lineage through use of their father's first (and only) name. Last names were ‘normalized’ and became more standardized with the advent of mass literacy, paper availability and documentation, and mobility. For example, passports vs early letters of introduction for travel. For example, early patronymic Welsh surnames were

360-406: The continental Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, where hereditary family names came into widespread use for the general population during the course of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century, ultimately as a consequence of legislation. As the outcome of this, a large majority of Scandinavian family names originated as the patronymics borne by the heads of family at

384-487: The ending with ander , the Greek word for man (e.g. Micrander , Mennander ). The Swedish nobility during medieval times did not have formal naming conventions, as letters of patent did not appear until 1420. The families of the uradel used names deriving from the crest of the house such as Brahe , Natt och Dag , Bielke , Sparre , Oxenstierna , Trolle , Bååt and Bonde . After the nobility had been established as

408-402: The first estate of the realm in 1626, family names became mandatory (disambiguation was sometimes needed ), and the use of patronymics by the nobility fell out of use. In the 17th and the 18th centuries, the surname was only rarely the original family name of the ennobled; usually, a more imposing new name was chosen. This was a period which produced a myriad of two-word Swedish family names for

432-421: The name in genitive form: Ollas Anders Eriksson (Anders from Olla, son of Erik). As patronyms were replaced by surnames, they either became surnames proper (at the end) or continued to be used in the traditional way in combination with a new surname. The tradition is now recognised in law, and farm names appear before given names in official records. When parents name their child, the name must be registered with

456-414: The nobility; very favoured prefixes were Adler– (German for 'eagle'), Ehren– (German for 'honor', Swedish ära ), Silfver– ('silver') and Gyllen– or Gylden- ('golden' or 'gilded'). Unlike a British peerage title ("Lord Somewhere"), such a name became the new surname of the whole house, and the old surname was dropped altogether. The ennoblement (in 1632) of Peder Joenson is a case in point in which

480-429: The person is normally identified in conversation, is one of the given names but not necessarily the first. In contexts in which the full name is spelled out, the calling name is often indicated by an asterisk, capital letters, underlining or italics. For example, Märta Birgit* Nilsson is known as Birgit Nilsson, and Björn* Kristian Ulvaeus is known as Björn Ulvaeus. In Scandinavia , surnames proper did not exist until

504-473: The result of the Anglicizing of the historical Welsh naming system, which sometimes had included references to several generations: e.g., Llywelyn ap Gruffydd ap Morgan (Llywelyn son of Gruffydd son of Morgan), and which gave rise to the quip, "as long as a Welshman's pedigree." As an example of Anglicization, the name Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was turned into Llywelyn Gruffydds; i.e., the "ap" meaning "son of"

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528-456: The times when these laws came into effect, and these surnames mostly display a limited variety reflecting the popularity of male given names during the 18th and 19th centuries in those countries. Most Mauritanian surnames are also patronymic, with names consisting of " Ould " or "Mint" followed by the ancestor's name or names. Heraldry, like early pictographs, logos or icons, also helped designate families across much of Europe. People working for

552-411: The use of the old surname was discontinued, and Peder Gyllensvärd afterward came into use. An illustration of the old name being modified by having an addition to it can be seen the ennoblement of the brothers Johan Henrik Lang and Lars Adam Lang (in 1772) taking the surname Langenskjöld . Names prefixed with von or af (older spelling of "av", Sw: "from") which were commonly adopted in the 18th and

576-636: Was replaced by the genitive suffix "-s", but there are other cases like "ab Evan" being turned into "Bevan". Some Welsh surnames, such as John or Howell , did not acquire the suffix "-s." In some other cases, the suffix was affixed to the surname much later, in the 18th or 19th century. Likewise, in some cases, the "ap" coalesced into the name in some form, as in Broderick (ab Rhydderch), Price (ap Rhys) and Upjohn (ap John). Similarly, last names or surnames were not set in Russia, but patronymic and based on

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