Stig

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish and modern form of Stígr ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Stígr

Name Days

Norway

13 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

5 June

Sweden

17 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Denmark: 12th century (Skåne) ^[2]
Sweden: 1867 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	1	32302	59856
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	5188	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	3620	9578
Finland[6]		n.a.	3	n.a	3686
#: 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^[3][4][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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

References

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