Mars

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Name of a Roman god

1) Latin mas, maris = 'man' [1]

2) Latin mare = 'sea, ocean' [1] [2] [3]

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Related Names

Mars
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Marsa
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Swedish

See also Marius, Martialis

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Marsson Iceland

Female

Marsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Mars
Genitive: Mars'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Mars
Genitive: Marsin
Partitive: Marsia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Mars
Accusative: Mars
Dative: Mars
Genitive: Mars
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Mars
Genitive: Mars'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Mars
Genitive: Mars' / Mars

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Trivia

  • Mars is also used as an Icelandic horse name
  • Mars is also the Nordic (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) word for 'March' [5]

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[6]
17 33 6 10 11 23
Denmark Denmark[7]
16
n.a.
1
n.a.
15
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
5 0 0
n.a.
5
Iceland Iceland[9]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
7
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Mars.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  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. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/