Sam m

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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Sam f for the female version of this name.

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish form of SámR ^[1]

2) English short form of Samuel ^{[2] [3] [4]}

3) English short form of Samson ^[3]

Related Names

Sam	♂

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 August

Sweden

1 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1845 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		28	72	2640	3694
Denmark[6]		9	n.a.	289	n.a
Norway[7]		0	7	162	276
Finland[8]		n.a.	3	n.a	592
#: 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^[5][6][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi