Linus

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Latin form of Greek Λινος (Linos) of uncertain origin and meaning. Maybe it is taken from the refrain of a lament sung at harvest in Argos / Greece: oi lann, ai lenn = 'woe betide us' ^[1]

2) Short form of names ending on -linus ^[1]

Related Names

Liinus	♂
Linus	♂

For female forms see Lina

Name Days

Denmark

23 September

Faroe Islands

23 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

3 May

Sweden

26 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1810 ^[2]

Namesakes

Linus Benedict Torvalds (*1969), Finlandswedish software engineer and initiator of the Linux operation system

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	3	18373	22243
Norway[4]		0	0	683	901
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	632	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	1028
#: 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^[3][5][4][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

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

References

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