Eyvind
Eyvind is a male name .
Origin and meaning
Eyvind comes from Norwegian and is "Øyvind" in its original spelling. Meanings are "living on an island" or "happy and given gifts".
variants
- Norwegian:
- Eyvindr , Even , Eivin , Eiven , Eyvinn , Eivinn
Well-known namesake
- Eyvind Alnæs (1872–1932), Norwegian composer
- Eyvind Børge Martin Marius Bastholm (1904–1989), Danish medical historian
- Eyvind Earle (1916–2000), American painter
- Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976), Swedish writer ( Nobel Prize in Literature 1976)
- Eyvind Kang (* around 1972), American composer
- Eyvind Lambi , Norwegian Viking at the turn of the first millennium of the Christian era
- Eyvind Hugo Wichmann (1928–2019), American theoretical physicist