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Globally, Svend (斯文 , Svend , Sveinn ) is quite a common unisex first name. The first name Svend is habitual in Northern Europe, particularly Iceland, where it is quite a common male name, Denmark, and Norway, where it is quite a rare masculine name. In absolute terms, it is the most numerous in China, Denmark, and Germany. Very seldom, Svend is the last name as well as the forename.
Svend is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sven , character in Jerusalem Delivered; Sven , the fictional Reindeer from Disney's Frozen; Sven Svenson , the fictional character in the 1987–1996 animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series, Northern Lights Out; Sven Kjartanson , the fictional character in The Saxon Stories, The Last Kingdom and Sven Bolund , the fictional character in the Bert universe, among other works.
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