Edmund

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) English modern form of the Eadmund ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Sometimes used as a modern form of Emund (see Øymundr) ^[1]

Related Names

Edmund	♂

Name Days

Norway

16 November

Sweden

18 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1622 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		0	0	277	606
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	213	n.a
Sweden[6]		0	0	167	1181
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	380
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [4] [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. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi