Axel

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish and modern form of Axeln ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Absalom

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

23 March

Sweden

16 June

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Axel
Accusative:	Axel
Dative:	Axel
Genitive:	Axels

- Faroese
Nominative:	Axel
Accusative:	Axel
Dative:	Axeli
Genitive:	Axels

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1371 ^[1]

Namesakes

Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (1583 - 1654)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		3	4	16288	56075
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	2247	n.a
Norway[6]		0	0	836	1342
Finland[7]		n.a.	3	n.a	5819
#: 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^[4][5][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi