Nis

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish variant form of Nisse

Related Names

See Nisse

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nissen

Female

Nisdatter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Nis
Genitive:	Nis'

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Nis
Genitive:	Nis'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Nis
Genitive:	Nis' / Nis

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 14th century
• Sweden: (1407?)
• Greenland: 1945

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • Top 14 in the 17th century in Sydvestjylland
  • -1910

Period of Usage

• Greenland: 1945-1985

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: Sønderjylland

Namesakes

• Nis Petersen (22 January 1897 – 9 March 1943), Danish poet
• Nis Randers is a poem published by Otto Ernst in 1910

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&
Denmark		714	n.a.	0	n.a.	714	n.a.
Greenland		6	86	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		7	30	0	8	7	22
Norway		10	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	10	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1	0	0	n.a.	1
#: 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 Nis.