Magni m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Magni f for the female version.

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse magn, megin = 'might', 'strength' (see also MAGN) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Maggi
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic
Magni
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Icelandic Old Norse Swedish

For younger forms see Magne

For female forms see Magna

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Magnason Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Magnadóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

See MAGN (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Magni
Genitive: Magnis
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Magni
Accusative: Magna
Dative: Magna
Genitive: Magna
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Magni
Accusative: Magna
Dative: Magna
Genitive: Magna
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Magni
Genitive: Magnis

Name Day

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

18 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Norse Mythology

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 759 people were named Magni m (percentage of first or only given name: 6 %) [7]

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[10]
125 244
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
29 325 2 9 27 316
Denmark Denmark[12]
63
n.a.
1
n.a.
62
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
2
n.a.
1
n.a.
1
Norway Norway[14]
347
n.a.
340
n.a.
7
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
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.

 

Statistics as male name

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Magni (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Magni (m)


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  6. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  9. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/