Tove

Tove is a female, and very rarely a male, given name .

Origin and meaning

The name Tove is a modern form of the Old Norse names Tófa (female) and Tófi (male), which are short forms of names that begin with Thor .

In Sweden there are 12 male namesake compared to more than 6,000 female name carriers, in Norway and Denmark the female namesake predominate.

Tove (Mecklenburg) (around 975 AD), princess, queen, daughter of the Obotrite prince Mistivoj, wife of the Viking Age Danish king Harald Blauzahn (around 940–985 / 86)
Tove Alexandersson (* 1992), Swedish orienteer
Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976), Danish author
Tove Edfeldt (* 1983), Swedish actress
Tove Hol (* 1970), Norwegian badminton player
Tove Jansson (1914–2001), Finnish-Swedish illustrator, comic book artist, author and painter
Tove Karoline Knutsen (* 1951), Norwegian musician and politician
Tove Lindbo Larsen (1928–2018), Danish Minister and Member of the Folketing

Tove Lo (* 1987), Swedish singer-songwriter

Tove Nilsen (* 1952), Norwegian writer and literary critic

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (* 1940), Finnish linguist and author

Tove Strand (* 1946), Norwegian politician

Tove Styrke (* 1992), Swedish pop singer

Tove Veierød (* 1940), Norwegian politician