Kent

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Kenneth [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

Cent
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Swedish
Centh
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Kendt
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Kent
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Kenth
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Kenny

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kent
Genitive: Kents
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kent
Genitive: Kentin
Partitive: Kentiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kent
Genitive: Kents
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kent
Genitive: Kents

Name Days

Norway Norway

11 October

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

11 May

Sweden Sweden

22 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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[9]
16505 30700 0 5 16505 30695
Denmark Denmark[10]
3619
n.a.
0
n.a.
3619
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
893 0 0
n.a.
893
Greenland Greenland[12]
12 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
8 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
2435
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
2435
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 Kent (m) Sources: [9][10][14][11]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Kent (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 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 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  8. Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no