Mattias

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Matthias ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Related Names

See Matthias

Name Days

Denmark

24 February

Faroe Islands

24 February

Norway

24 February

Finland (Swedish Language)

24 February

Sweden

24 February

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Mattias
Accusative:	Mattias
Dative:	Mattiasi
Genitive:	Mattiasar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1247 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		1	1	29906	47965
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	457	n.a
Norway[8]		0	0	269	394
Finland[9]		0	0	n.a	3669
#: 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^[6][7][8][9]:

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
4. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
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. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi