Nan

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Nanna

2) English short form of Anna [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Nan
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Nann
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nan
Genitive: Nans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Nan
Genitive: Nanin
Partitive: Nania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nan
Genitive: Nans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nan
Genitive: Nans

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 79 people were named Nan (percentage of first or only given name: 90 %) [4]

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[5]
111 196 88 163 23 33
Denmark Denmark[6]
112
n.a.
99
n.a.
13
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
93
n.a.
71
n.a.
22
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
127
n.a.
127
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 Nan.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  3. Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no