Aslak

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern form of Áslákr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See ÁslæikR

Name Days

Finland

23 February

Norway

15 September

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Sør-Noreg up to Møre og Romsdal (after the Protestant Reformation), Telemark and Finnmark (20th century) ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[5]		0	0	1002	1236
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	144	n.a
Sweden[7]		0	0	25	120
Finland[8]		0	0	n.a	1606
#: 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^[7][6][5][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[7] [6] [5] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi