Harry

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

English form of Henri (French pronunciation) ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Heinrich

Name Days

Norway

22 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 January

Sweden

10 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1858 ^[1]

Namesakes

Harry Edmund Martinson, 6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978, Swedish sailor, author, poet and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1974)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	1	4488	17957
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	2449	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	1339	2787
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	6465
#: 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. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
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