Dag

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of DagR [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See DagR

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dag
Genitive: Dags
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dag
Genitive: Dagin
Partitive: Dagia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dag
Genitive: Dags
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dag
Genitive: Dags

Name Days

Norway Norway

11 September

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

9 June

Sweden Sweden

16 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 3,326 people were named Dag (percentage of first or only given name: 88 %) [5]
  • Dag was a heavy storm in Norway in January 1996.

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[6]
2361 4365 0 3 2361 4362
Denmark Denmark[7]
124
n.a.
1
n.a.
123
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
184 0 0
n.a.
184
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
9296
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
9296
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Dag (m) Sources: [6][7][11][8]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Dag (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no