Finn m

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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Finn f for the female version of this name.

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Finnr ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Finnr

Name Days

Norway

16 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

26 September

Sweden

16 October

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Finn
Accusative:	Finn
Dative:	Finni
Genitive:	Finns

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden (in modern history): 1873 ^[1]

Namesakes

Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (1895 - 1928), Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer

Finn Erling Kydland, * 1 December 1943, Norwegian economist and Nobel laureate (Economics, 2004)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	18166	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	2951	7415
Sweden[5]		20	65	782	1250
Finland[6]		n.a.	2	n.a	202
#: 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^[5][3][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[5] [3] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
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. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi