Niels

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Male Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Modern Danish form of Nighils ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Nils

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Niels
Accusative:	Niels
Dative:	Nielsi
Genitive:	Niels

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1881 ^[2]

Namesakes

Niels Ryberg Finsen, 15 December 1860 – 24 September 1904, Faroese physician and scientist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1903)

Niels Kaj Jerne, 23 December 1911 – 7 October 1994, Danish immunologist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1984)

Aage Niels Bohr, 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009, Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate (Physics, 1975)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	40690	n.a
Sweden[4]		0	0	541	1043
Norway[5]		0	0	148	610
Finland[6]		n.a.	2	n.a	120
#: 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^[4][3][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

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