Björn
[bɪːˈɔːrn]Meaning
Scandinavian male given name meaning "bear"
Background Story
Björn is a Scandinavian male given name, or less often a surname, that means "bear". It appears as Björn in Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch and German, as Bjørn in Danish, Faroese and Norwegian, and as Bjorn or Bjorne in English and Dutch. The German form was borrowed from Swedish Björn in the 1930s, and the Icelandic form comes from björn, the word for bear. In Swedish and Finnish, the nickname Nalle ("teddy bear") refers to Björn.
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