Stefan

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Stephanus ^[1]

Related Names

See Stephanus

Name Days

Denmark

26 December

Faroe Islands

26 December

Norway

26 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

26 December

Sweden

26 December

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Stefan
Accusative:	Stefan
Dative:	Stefani
Genitive:	Stefans

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Stefan
Accusative:	Stefan
Dative:	Stefani
Genitive:	Stefans

Further Information

Namesakes

Stefan Sauk (*6th June, 1955), Swedish actor

Stefan Edberg (*19th January, 1966), Swedish tennis player

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	5	44167	71999
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	5216	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	1130	1723
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	4542
#: 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^[2][3][4][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

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