Ben

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form (English) of names beginning with Ben-, especially Benjamin and Benedikt [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Frisian and Low German short form of names beginning with Bern- (see BJÖRN) [1]

Related Names

     
Ben ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Beni ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Benn ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Benne ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Sami Swedish
Benni ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Bennie ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Benno ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Benny ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Pena ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Peni ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Penna ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Penni ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Pennu ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Pentta ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Penttoo ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Penu ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish

For female forms see Benny f

Name Days

Norway Norway

30 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 December

Further Information

Namesakes

Ben Roy Mottelson, * 9 July 1926, Danish American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate (Physics, 1975)

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[5] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m3.png 12 79 341 2173
Denmark Denmark[6] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m3.png 0 n.a. 129 n.a
Norway Norway[7] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m3.png 0 0 106 473
Finland Finland[8] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m4.png n.a. 7 n.a 1083
  #: 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][6][7][8]:Name statistics for Ben(m)


Sources: [5] [6] [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  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
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