Atlas

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Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of the Greek name Ατλας (Atlas)

1) Greek athlos = 'struggle'

2) Greek negative prefix α (a) combined with τλαω (tlao) = 'to endure' = 'not enduring'

Related Names

Atlas

♂

See also Atlanta

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Atlasarson

Female

Atlasardóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Atlas
Genitive:	Atlas'

- Finnish
Nominative:	Atlas
Genitive:	Atlaksen
Partitive:	Atlasta

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Atlas
Accusative:	Atlas
Dative:	Atlasi
Genitive:	Atlasar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Atlas
Genitive:	Atlas'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Atlas
Genitive:	Atlas' / Atlas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 28 May 2004

Greek Mythology

• In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity after the Titanomachy

Trivia

• Atlas is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Sweden		198	330	3	10	195	320
Denmark		312	n.a.	5	n.a.	307	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	128	n.a.	6	n.a.	122
Iceland		24	50	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		49	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	49	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Atlas.