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Nicolas
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Usage
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Creative spelling (also French) of Nikolas [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Nikolás
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Nicolaksenpoika |
|
| Nicolasen |
|
| Nicolassen |
|
| Nicolasson |
|
| Nicolassøn |
|
| Nicolasøn |
|
Female
| Nicolaksentytär |
|
| Nicolasdatter |
|
| Nicolasdotter |
|
| Nicolasdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicolas |
| Genitive: | Nicolas' |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicolas |
| Genitive: | Nicolaksen |
| Partitive: | Nicolasta |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicolas |
| Accusative: | Nicolas |
| Dative: | Nicolasi |
| Genitive: | Nicolas |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicolas |
| Genitive: | Nicolas' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Nicolas |
| Genitive: | Nicolas' / Nicolas |
Name Day
|
|
6 December |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Denmark: 19th century [3]
- Greenland: 1982 [5]
- Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 25 November 2005 [6]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Nicolas Paul Gustaf (born 15 June 2015), Prins av Sverige, Hertig av Ångermanland (Prince of Sweden, Duke of Ångermanland)
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 121 people were named Nicolas (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [7]
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[8] |
  |
1931 | 3018 | 0 | 12 | 1931 | 3006 |
| Denmark[9] |
 |
1627 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
1627 | n.a. |
| Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
1946 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
1946 |
| Iceland[11] |
  |
34 | 45 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greenland[12] |
|
12 | 14 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[13] |
|
893 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
893 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources:
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no