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Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of Georgius [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Georgius
Male
Georginpoika
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Georgsen
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Georgson
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Georgssen
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Georgsson
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Georgssøn
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Georgsøn
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Female
Georgdatter
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Georgintytär
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Georgsdatter
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Georgsdotter
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Georgsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Georg
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Genitive: |
Georgs
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Georg
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Accusative: |
Georg
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Dative: |
Georg / Georgi
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Genitive: |
Georgs
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Georg
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Genitive: |
Georgin
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Partitive: |
Georgia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Georg
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Accusative: |
Georg
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Dative: |
Georg
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Genitive: |
Georgs
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Georg
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Genitive: |
Georgs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Georg
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Genitive: |
Georgs
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Name Days
Faroe Islands
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23 April
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Norway
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23 April
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Finland (Swedish Language)
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23 April
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Sweden
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23 April
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Saint Georg (230 - 23 April 303), patron for the health of domestic animals; he is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
- Georg Stiernhielm (born Göran Olofsson), 7th August, 1598 – 22nd April, 1672, Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 42,899 people were named Georg (percentage of first or only given name: 15 %) [11]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[13] |
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1818 |
18210 |
0 |
8 |
1818 |
18202 |
Finland[14] |
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n.a. |
4520 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
4520 |
Denmark[15] |
|
1302 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
1302 |
n.a. |
Iceland[16] |
|
143 |
258 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
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28 |
71 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
2331 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
2331 |
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
Sources: [13][15][18][14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Georg (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no