Fabian

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Fabianus ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [3] [5]}

Related Names

See Fabius

Name Days

Denmark

20 January

Norway

20 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 January

Sweden

20 January

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Fabian
Accusative:	Fabian
Dative:	Fabiani
Genitive:	Fabians

Further Information

For short forms see also Jan

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1571 ^[1]
Norway: 16th century ^[3]

Namesakes

Karl Fabian Månsson (1872 – 1938), Swedish Socialist politician

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		0	1	3738	5298
Norway[7]		0	0	618	886
Denmark[8]		0	n.a.	236	n.a
Finland[9]		0	0	n.a	1731
#: 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][8][7][9]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

Sources: ^{[6] [8] [7] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi