Sten

From Nordic Names wiki - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish, Old Swedish and modern form of Stæinn ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Stæinn

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

28 November

Sweden

14 December

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Norrland ^[1]

Namesakes

Sten Sture (1440–1503), Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden

Sten Sture Lord of Ekesiö (1493–1520), Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	4	12692	25566
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	2115	n.a
Norway[6]		0	0	299	1649
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	1145
#: 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^[4][5][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi