Gideon

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of the Hebrew name גִּדְעוֹן (gid'on) = 'feller, hewer, one who cuts down' ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Gedeon	♂
Gedion	♂
Gideon	♂
Gídeon	♂
Kiite	♂
Kiitu	♂
Kite	♂
Kitti	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 18th century ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	0	150	824
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	35	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	17	26
Finland[6]		0	0	n.a	608
#: 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. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
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