Frans

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Icelandic
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Franz ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Franz

Name Days

Finland

4 October

Norway

4 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

4 October

Sweden

4 October

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Frans
Accusative:	Frans
Dative:	Frans
Genitive:	Frans

- Faroese
Nominative:	Frans
Accusative:	Frans
Dative:	Fransi
Genitive:	Frans

Further Information

Namesakes

Frans Michael Franzén (9th February 1772 – 14th August 1847), Finland-Swedish poet

Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964, Finnish writer and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1939)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		1	4	2230	6556
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	484	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	57	200
Finland[6]		n.a.	11	n.a	13800
#: 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^[3][4][5][6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi