Knut

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern form of Knútr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Knútr

Name Days

Norway

7 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

13 January

Sweden

13 January

Further Information

In Sweden, Knut has sometimes been used to name the last child of the family (Swedish knut = 'knot' meaning 'stop') ^[3]

Tjugondag jul ('Twentieth Day Yule'), or Tjugondag Knut is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden on January 13. Christmas trees are taken down and the candies and cookies that decorated the tree are eaten.

Namesakes

Knut Hamsun, 4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952, Norwegian author and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1920)

Knut Rokne (in the US: Knute Kenneth Rockne), American football player and coach with Norwegian roots, 1888-1931

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		0	0	10413	26771
Sweden[5]		10	48	6598	15750
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	150	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	1293
#: 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][6][4][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi