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Máni

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name and byname

Old Norse máni = 'moon' (poet.) [1] [2]

Moon
Moon

Related Names

Mane ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Old Danish Old Swedish
Máni ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic Old Norse
Måne ♀/♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Mánason Iceland

Female

Mánadóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see MÁN

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Máni
Accusative: Mána
Dative: Mána
Genitive: Mána

Further Information

Norse Mythology

  • Máni is the personification of the moon. His father is Mundilfari and his sister is Sól, the sun. The moon and the sun are drawn by horses across the sky. Just as the sun is pursued by a wolf, so Máni is pursued by Hati who will catch him at Ragnarǫk and devour him. Máni steers the way of the moon and determines its waxing and waning. Once he took two children from earth, Bil and Hjúki, children of Viðfinnr, when they were coming from the spring Byrgir, and were carrying the bushel Sægr and the pole Simul on their shoulders. These children follow the moon and can be seen from the earth. [4]

Trivia

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&
Iceland Iceland[5]
201 1482
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
5 23 0 0 5 23
Denmark Denmark[7]
12
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 12
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 2 0 0
n.a.
 2
Norway Norway[9]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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 Máni.


References

  1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  3. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  4. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  5. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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