Allan

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Alan ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Alan

Name Days

Finland

7 April

Norway

8 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 April

Sweden

22 April

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Allan
Accusative:	Allan
Dative:	Allani
Genitive:	Allans

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Allan
Accusative:	Allan
Dative:	Allan
Genitive:	Allans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1839 ^[2]

Namesakes

Johan Allan Edwall (1924 - 1997), Swedish actor

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	17861	n.a
Sweden[5]		2	6	4557	22164
Norway[6]		0	0	345	583
Finland[7]		n.a.	8	n.a	18247
#: 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^[5][4][6][7]:

Sources: ^{[5] [4] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi