Henning

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Low German short form of Johenning (see Johannes) ^{[1] [2]}

2) Low German pet form of Heinrich ^{[1] [2]}

3) Variant form of Hemming (see HæmingR) ^[2]

Related Names

Henning	♂
Henninge	♀
Henningea	♀
Henningur	♂

Name Days

Faroe Islands

22 May

Norway

22 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

29 April

Sweden

22 May

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Henning
Accusative:	Henning
Dative:	Henning
Genitive:	Hennings

Further Information

Namesakes

Henning Mankell, Swedish author and theatre director, * February 3rd, 1948

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	19852	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	4472	5368
Sweden[5]		0	3	1682	8040
Finland[6]		n.a.	2	n.a	400
#: 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^[5][3][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[5] [3] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi