Erling

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Erlingr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Erlingr

Name Days

Norway

19 June

Sweden

11 October

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Erling
Accusative:	Erling
Dative:	Erling
Genitive:	Erlings

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1272 ^[2]

Namesakes

Erling Eidem (23rd April, 1880 – 14th April, 1972), Swedish theologian (archbishop of Uppsala 1931–1950)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	7144	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	4600	7519
Sweden[6]		0	0	1609	7878
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	n.a	265
#: 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^[6][4][5][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[6] [4] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi