Grim

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern form of GrímR ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Old Danish and Old Swedish name deriving from Old Norse grimmr = 'grim, cruel, atrocious' ^[1]

Related Names

Grim	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1916 (in modern times) ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	1	136	237
Norway[5]		0	0	64	108
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	4	n.a	4
#: 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^[4][6][5][7]:

Sources: ^{[4] [6] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi