August

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Augustus ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Augustus

Name Days

Finland

7 January

Norway

28 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 January

Sweden

7 January

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	August
Accusative:	August
Dative:	Augusti
Genitive:	Augusts

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1661 ^[3]

Namesakes

August Theodor Blanche, 17th September, 1811 – 30th November, 1868, Swedish journalist, novelist, and a Socialist statesman

Johan August Söderman, 17th July, 1832 – 10th February, 1876, Swedish composer

Johan August Strindberg, 22nd January, 1849 – 14th May, 1912, Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist

Schack August Steenberg Krogh, 15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949, Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1920)

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.	2829	n.a
Sweden[5]		0	1	2514	7038
Norway[6]		0	0	1059	1319
Finland[7]		n.a.	12	n.a	16947
#: 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]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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