Fingal

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish

Origin and Meaning

Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Fionnghall

First element (Fionn-):

Gaelic fionn = 'white, fair'

Last element (-ghall):

Gaelic gall = 'stranger'

^[1]

Related Names

Fingal	♂

See also Finngarðr

Name Day

Sweden

27 June

Further Information

Fingal was used as a byname for Norse settlers in Scotland

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1812 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	0	27	279
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	4	n.a	52
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Fingal.

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi