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Sten

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of Stæinn [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See Stæinn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Stensson Old Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sten
Genitive: Stens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sten
Genitive: Stenin
Partitive: Steniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sten
Genitive: Stens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sten
Genitive: Stens

Name Days

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

28 November

Sweden Sweden

14 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Sten Sture (1440 – 14 December 1503), Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden
  • Sten Sture Lord of Ekesiö (1493 – 3 February 1520), Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden
  • Sten Kaalø Andersen (born 12 August 1945), Danish writer, actor and priest

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[12]
9048 22198 0 8 9048 22190
Denmark Denmark[13]
1963
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 1962
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
 1430 0 0
n.a.
 1430
Greenland Greenland[15]
11 639
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
1542
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 1542
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Sten (m) Sources: [12][13][16][14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Sten (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Sten (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Sten (m)


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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