Nisse

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Danish and south Swedish pet form of Nils [1] [2]

Related Names

Niis
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish
Niisi
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Greenlandic
Nis
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Nîse
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Nísik
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Greenlandic
Niss
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Swedish
Niß
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish
Nisse
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Nissik
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Greenlandic

For female forms see Nisa, Nissine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nissen Denmark Norway

Female

Nissedatter Denmark
Nissesdatter Denmark Norway

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Trivia

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[4]
204 439 0 4 204 435
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
89 0 0
n.a.
89
Denmark Denmark[6]
5
n.a.
0
n.a.
5
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 0
n.a.
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 Nisse.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/