Napoleon

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Italian name of uncertain origin and meaning

1) Most likely, it was of Germanic origin, possibly connected to the elvish Nibelungen = 'sons of the mist' ^[1]

2) Later it was altered by association with Greek Neapolis = 'new town', the Greek form of the Italian town of Napoli (English Naples) ^{[1] [2]}

3) Sometimes it was associated with the Greek words nape = 'dell' + Greek leon = 'lion'

Related Names

Napoleon	♂
Poli	♂

See also Leon

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Napoleon
Accusative:	Napoleon
Dative:	Napoleoni
Genitive:	Napoleons

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1802 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	2	45	840
Norway[4]		0	0	6	8
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	5	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	1	n.a	128
#: 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 Napoleon.

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi