Bekan

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse form of Becán [1]

Related Names

See Becán

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bekansson Iceland

Female

Bekansdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Bekan
Accusative: Bekan
Dative: Bekan
Genitive: Bekans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bekan
Genitive: Bekans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bekan
Genitive: Bekans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

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 Sweden[4]
2 2 0 0 2 2
Iceland Iceland[5]
2 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[6]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
4
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
1 0 0
n.a.
1
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Bekan.


References

  1. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  2. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  3. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/