Sune

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish ^[1] and modern form ^{[2] [3]} of Suni

Related Names

See Suni

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

28 March

Sweden

29 November

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Southern and Eastern Götaland ^[2]

Namesakes

Karl Sune Detlof Bergström, 10 January 1916 – 15 August 2004, Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1982)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	0	6324	14511
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	2958	n.a
Norway[6]		0	0	73	110
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	n.a	669
#: 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]:

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

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
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