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Egon

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latinised form of the Old High German name Egino (see Agino) and other Old High German names beginning with Egin- (see EGG and AGI) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Latin form of the Greek name Aigon, Greek aix = 'goat' [2]

Goat
Goat
Image by Armin Kübelbeck,[8]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Egon ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Edgon

For female forms see Egonia

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Egon
Genitive: Egons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Egon
Genitive: Egonin
Partitive: Egonia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Egon
Genitive: Egons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Egon
Genitive: Egons

Name Days

Norway Norway

5 November

Sweden Sweden

11 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10,776 people were named Egon (percentage of first or only given name: 20 %) [9]
  • Egon was a heavy storm in Denmark and Sweden in January 2015.

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[10]
1213 5146 0 4 1213 5142
Denmark Denmark[11]
3634
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 3633
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 322 0 0
n.a.
 322
Greenland Greenland[13]
13 44
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
146
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 146
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 Egon (m) Sources: [10][11][15][12]


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Armin Kübelbeck, source & license
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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