Roy

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

Origin and Meaning

1. Anglicised form of the Gaelic name Ruadh; Gaelic ruadh = 'red' [1] [2]

2. Later it has often been associated with the French word roi (Old French roy) = 'king' [1] [2] [3]

3. Pet form of Ronald (see Ragnvaldr) [4]

4. Anglicised form of a Gaelic name meaning 'black' (?) [5]

Related Names

     
Roy ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Roya ♀ Danish Faroese Finnish Norwegian Swedish

Name Days

Norway Norway

3 November

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

7 September

Sweden Sweden

7 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1881 [3]

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Norway Norway[6] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m4.png 0 0 2961 7772
Sweden Sweden[7] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m4.png 0 9 2628 4723
Denmark Denmark[8] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m3.png 0 n.a. 194 n.a
Finland Finland[9] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m4.png n.a. 2 n.a 1083
  #: 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[7][8][6][9]:Name statistics for Roy(m)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[6]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Roy(m)


Sources: [7] [8] [6] [9]

References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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