Georg

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Male Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Georgius ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Georgius

Name Days

Faroe Islands

23 April

Norway

23 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

23 April

Sweden

23 April

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Georg
Accusative:	Georg
Dative:	Georg / Georgi
Genitive:	Georgs

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Georg
Accusative:	Georg
Dative:	Georg
Genitive:	Georgs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1540 ^[2]

Namesakes

Georg Stiernhielm (born Göran Olofsson), 7th August, 1598 – 22nd April, 1672, Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	3	2471	21544
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	1583	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	1364	2284
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	4163
#: 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]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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