Aksel

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish younger form of Axeln [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Axelen

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Akselinpoika Finland
Akselsen Norway
Akselson Norway Sweden
Akselssen Norway
Akselsson Iceland Norway Sweden
Akselssøn Norway
Akselsøn Norway

Female

Akseldatter Norway
Akselintytär Finland
Akselsdatter Norway
Akselsdotter Norway Sweden
Akselsdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Aksel
Genitive: Aksels
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Aksel
Accusative: Aksel
Dative: Akseli
Genitive: Aksels
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Aksel
Genitive: Akselin
Partitive: Akselia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Aksel
Accusative: Aksel
Dative: Aksel
Genitive: Aksels
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Aksel
Genitive: Aksels
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Aksel
Genitive: Aksels

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

30 October

Norway Norway

30 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 168 people were named Aksel (percentage of first or only given name: 52 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[11]
5217
n.a.
1
n.a.
5216
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
3704 0 0
n.a.
3704
Sweden Sweden[13]
311 618 3 3 308 615
Greenland Greenland[14]
22 94
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
2 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
5343
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
5343
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Aksel (m) Sources: [13][11][9][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Aksel (m) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Aksel (m)


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  8. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. details see Name Statistic tables