Hannibal

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Usage

Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Phoenician name meaning 'grace of Bal' or 'gracious gift from Bal' [1] [2] [3]

First element (Hanni-):
Phoenician hann = 'grace'

Last element (-bal):
Phoenician name of a God

Related Names

Hamball
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Norwegian
Hanibal Danish Norwegian Swedish
Hannibal
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Hannibalsson Iceland

Female

Hannibalsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hannibal
Genitive: Hannibals
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Hannibal
Genitive: Hannibalin
Partitive: Hannibalia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Hannibal
Accusative: Hannibal
Dative: Hannibal
Genitive: Hannibals
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hannibal
Genitive: Hannibals
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hannibal
Genitive: Hannibals

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

2 August

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

2 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Hannibal Sehested (1609 – 23 September 1666), Danish statesman and Governor-general of Norway
  • Hannibal Sehested (16 November 1842 – 19 September 1924), Danish Council President from 27 April 1900 to 24 July 1901

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 16 people were named Hannibal (percentage of first or only given name: 13 %) [5]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[6]
471
n.a.
0
n.a.
471
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
42 87 0 0 42 87
Iceland Iceland[8]
10 12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
8 0 0
n.a.
8
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
9
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Hannibal.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no