Tove is a Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

n given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 which derives from the Old Norse name Tófa

Tofa (Poetic Edda)

Tófa is the wife of Angantyr and mother of Hervor, in Hervararkviða, a poem from the Poetic Edda which is part of the Tyrfing Cycle.-In the Poetic Edda:She is mentioned only once, in Hervor's appeal to Angantyr:...

, a shortening of Thorfrithr, "beautiful Thor

Thor

In Norse mythology, Thor is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing, healing, and fertility...

" or "peace of Thor." Tove is mostly a female name but occasionally masculine. Tove is also an alternative English spelling of the Hebrew female name that more commonly spelled Tovah or Tova. Famous persons named Tove include:

Women:

• Tove Ditlevsen
  Tove Ditlevsen
  Tove Ditlevsen was a female Danish poet and author.She was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the working-class neighbourhood of Vesterbro. Her childhood experiences were the focal points of her work. Ditlevsen was married four times.She published 29 books including short stories, poetry and...
  
  , Danish poet and author.
• Tove Jansson
  Tove Jansson
  Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...
  
  , Finnish writer.
• Tove Jensen
  Color Climax Corporation
  Color Climax Corporation ApS is a Danish pornography company founded in 1969. It has its headquarters in Copenhagen. It had been one of the leading producers of European pornography up until the 1990s....
  
  , also known as Tiny Tove, adult film star.
• Tove Edfeldt, Swedish actress.
• Tove Maës
  Tove Maës
  Tove Maës was a Danish actress of stage, television and film best known for her starring roles in the series of "Morten Korch" films, in particular The Red Horses. Maës was a three-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Actress, winning in 1954, 1971, and 1983.-Career:Maës was born in...
  
  , Danish actress
• Tove Nilsen
  Tove Nilsen
  Tove Nilsen is a Norwegian novelist, children's writer and literary critic.She made her literary debut in 1974 with the novel Aldri la dem kle deg forsvarsløst naken. Her adolescence novel from a dormitory town, Skyskraperengler was a bestseller.She was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature...
  
  , Norwegian writer

Men:

• Tove Christensen
  Tove Christensen
  Tove Christensen is a Canadian film producer and actor, and the older brother of Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Hayden Christensen.-Early life:...
  
  

Tove is also:

• a legendary girl, mistress of the Danish King Waldemar
  Valdemar I of Denmark
  Valdemar I of Denmark , also known as Valdemar the Great, was King of Denmark from 1157 until 1182.-Biography:...
  
  , and subject of a poem by Jens Peter Jacobsen
  Jens Peter Jacobsen
  Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen" and pronounced "I. P. Jacobsen"...
  
   best known for its musical setting as the Gurrelieder of Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
  
  .
• a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
  
   that appears in his poem Jabberwocky
  Jabberwocky
  "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
  
  .
• High Tove
  High Tove
  High Tove is a fell in the English Lake District, close to the geographical centre of the Cumbrian hills. It forms part of the watershed between the Derwentwater and Thirlmere catchments, a ridge running broadly north-south.-Topography:...
  
  , a mountain in the English Lake District
• River Tove
  River Tove
  The River Tove is a river in England, a tributary of the River Great Ouse. Rising in Northamptonshire, it flows for around 15 miles past the town of Towcester before meeting the Ouse near Milton Keynes. Its final 5 miles form part of the border between Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, running...
  
  , tributary of the River Great Ouse
  River Great Ouse
  The Great Ouse is a river in the east of England. At long, it is the fourth-longest river in the United Kingdom. The river has been important for navigation, and for draining the low-lying region through which it flows. Its course has been modified several times, with the first recorded being in...
  
   in England.
• TOVE Project
  TOVE Project
  The TOVE project, acronym of TOronto Virtual Enterprise project is a project to develop an ontological framework for enterprise integration based on and suited for enterprise modeling. In the beginning of the 1990s it was initiated by Mark E...
  
  , an ontology for modelling enterprises.