Ethel

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) English short form of names beginning with Ethel- (see ADAL) [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) German older variant form of Edel [5] [4]

Related Names

Etel
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Swedish
Ethel
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Ethil
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Swedish

See also Etly

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ethelarson Iceland

Female

Ethelardóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ethel
Genitive: Ethels
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ethel
Genitive: Ethelin
Partitive: Etheliä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ethel
Accusative: Ethel
Dative: Ethel
Genitive: Ethelar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ethel
Genitive: Ethels
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ethel
Genitive: Ethels

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

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[7]
1272 2931 1272 2929 0 2
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
1132
n.a.
1132 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
134
n.a.
134
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
9 15
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
72
n.a.
72
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 Ethel (f) Sources: [7][9][12][8]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no