Ylva

Ylva is a Swedish female given name meaning "she-wolf". It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Ulf. The name is also used in Norway.

Notable bearers

• Ingrid Ylva (c. 1180s–1250s), Swedish noblewoman
• Ylva Eggehorn (born 1950), Swedish poet and writer
• Ylva Ivarsson (born 1964), Swedish archer
• Ylva Johansson (born 1964), Swedish politician
• Ylva Lindberg (born 1976), Swedish ice hockey player
• Ylva Lööf (born 1958), Swedish actress
• Ylva Nowén (born 1970), Swedish former alpine skier
• Ylva Thörn (born 1954), Swedish politician and former trade unionist

In fiction

• Ylva, mother of Vicke Viking
• Ylva Haraldsdotter is a character in The Long Ships (original Swedish: Röde Orm) by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
• A character in Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura
• In the American movie Alex and Emma, Alex (a novelist) and Emma (his paid stenographer) get into an argument about whether Ylva (a character in his story) is a real name or not (which sends some American viewers to the internet to see whether it really is a name).

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