Ellen f

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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Ellen m for the male version of this name.

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Eleonora and its variants ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

2) Variant form of Helene and its variants ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

3) Pet form of Gabriella ^[4]

Related Names

Ellen	♀

See also Ella, Nelli

Name Days

Finland

10 February

Norway

21 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

10 February

Sweden

18 August

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ellen
Accusative:	Ellen
Dative:	Ellen
Genitive:	Ellenar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1824 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[11]		14733	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[12]		12817	23153	0	2
Norway[13]		5421	13663	0	0
Finland[14]		n.a.	16754	n.a	1
#: 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^{[12][11][13][14]}:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[13]:

Sources: ^{[12] [11] [13] [14]}

References

1. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
6. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
7. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
8. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
9. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
10. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
11. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
12. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
13. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
14. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi