Karen

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Danish form of Karin ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Karin

Name Day

Norway

2 August

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Karen
Accusative:	Karen/Karenu
Dative:	Karen/Karenu
Genitive:	Karenar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1882 ^[2]

Namesakes

Karen (Tanne / Tania) Christentze Blixen, Danish author (1885 - 1962)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		28804	n.a.	4	n.a
Norway[5]		2683	7147	6	7
Sweden[6]		744	1140	41	51
Finland[7]		n.a.	392	n.a	14
#: 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^[6][4][5][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[6] [4] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
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. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi