Simen

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

Swedish and Norwegian dialectal form and Low German form of Simon ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Simon

Name Day

Norway

28 October

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Norrland ^[1]
Norway: Østerdalen ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		0	0	6991	8261
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	28	n.a
Sweden[5]		2	3	24	29
Finland[6]		n.a.	3	n.a	8
#: 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][4][3][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi