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Male Name
Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Danish variant form of Jep (see Japer) [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
For female forms see Ibbe f
Male
Ibsen
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Ibssen
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Ibssøn
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Ibsøn
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Female
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Ib
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Genitive: |
Ibs
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ib
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Genitive: |
Ibin
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Partitive: |
Ibiä
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Ib
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Genitive: |
Ibs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Ib
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Genitive: |
Ibs
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Ib Eisner (19 May 1925 – 7 April 2003), Danish artist
- Ib Hansen (22 December 1928 - 24 February 2013), Danish opera singer and actor
- Ib Nørholm (born 24 January 1931), Danish composer and organist
- Ib Ohlsson (born 1935 ), Danish graphic artist and illustrator
- Ib Henning Madsen (born 12 April 1942), Danish mathematician
- Ib Michael (né Ib Michael Rasmussen, born 17 January 1945), Danish novelist and poet
- Ib Mohr Olsen (born 23 November 1965), Faroese football player
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 150 people were named Ib (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [4]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[5] |
|
5993 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
5993 |
n.a. |
Sweden[6] |
|
153 |
325 |
2 |
5 |
151 |
320 |
Greenland[7] |
|
34 |
65 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
22 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
22 |
Iceland[9] |
|
1 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[10] |
|
95 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
95 |
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 Ib.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no