Harry

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

English form of Henri (French pronunciation) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Harri
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Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Hárri
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Sami
Harry
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Harrye
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Norwegian
Harrý
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Icelandic
Hary
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Danish Norwegian Swedish
Herry
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Harijs, Harris, Harrison

For female forms see Harriet

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Harrysson Iceland Sweden

Female

Harrysdotter Sweden
Harrysdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Harry
Genitive: Harrys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Harry
Genitive: Harryn
Partitive: Harrya
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Harry
Accusative: Harry
Dative: Harry
Genitive: Harrys
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Harry
Genitive: Harrys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Harry
Genitive: Harrys

Name Days

Norway Norway

22 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 January

Sweden Sweden

10 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden:
    • In January 1973, 38931 people were named Harry (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [8]
    • Harry is an IKEA product name (chair) [9]

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&
Sweden Sweden[10]
6982 20771 0 17 6982 20754
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
6811 0 0
n.a.
6811
Denmark Denmark[12]
1499
n.a.
0
n.a.
1499
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
16 32
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
9 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
2014
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
2014
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Harry (m) Sources: [10][12][15][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Harry (m) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Harry (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  8. 8.0 8.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. details see Name Statistic tables