Dan

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Faroese
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish and Old Swedish form of DanR ^[1]

2) Modern form of DanR ^{[2] [3] [4]}

3) Short form of Daniel ^{[3] [2] [4]}

4) Hebrew dan = 'judge' ^{[3] [2]}

Related Names

Dan	♂
Dana	♀
Dann	♂
Danna	♀
Danne	♂

Name Days

Norway

11 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

11 December

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Dan
Accusative:	Dan
Dative:	Dani
Genitive:	Dans

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Dan
Accusative:	Dan
Dative:	Dan
Genitive:	Dans

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Östergötland (in the Middle Ages) ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		52	82	12366	22778
Denmark[6]		34	n.a.	6714	n.a
Norway[7]		9	20	433	2208
Finland[8]		n.a.	43	n.a	1796
#: 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]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
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