Eskil

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Ǣskæll [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Ǣskæll

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Eskilsen Denmark
Eskilsson Faroe Islands Iceland Sweden

Female

Eskilsdatter Denmark
Eskilsdotter Sweden
Eskilsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eskil
Genitive: Eskils
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Eskil
Accusative: Eskil
Dative: Eskili
Genitive: Eskils
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eskil
Genitive: Eskilin
Partitive: Eskiliä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Eskil
Accusative: Eskil
Dative: Eskil
Genitive: Eskils
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eskil
Genitive: Eskils
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eskil
Genitive: Eskils

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

15 September

Norway Norway

15 September

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

12 June

Sweden Sweden

12 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Place Names

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[11]
1884 5231 0 5 1884 5226
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
897 0 0
n.a.
897
Denmark Denmark[13]
387
n.a.
0
n.a.
387
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
2359
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
2359
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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 Eskil (m) Sources: [11][13][15][12]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Eskil (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Eskil (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Eskil (m)


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  6. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  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
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/