Morten

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Sami

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern variant form of Martin ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Martin

Name Days

Denmark

11 November

Norway

11 November

Sami	10 November

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	34557	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	18364	22088
Sweden[6]		0	0	516	653
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	n.a	108
#: 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][4][5][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[6] [4] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi