Torgny m

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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Torgny f for the female version of this name.

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Thorgny ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See ÞórgnýR

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

11 March

Sweden

26 February

Further Information

Namesakes

Torgny Karl Segerstedt (1 November 1876 – 31 March 1945), Swedish scholar of comparative religion, later publicist and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning from 1917 to 1945

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		2	7	1964	5217
Norway[4]		0	0	102	145
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	7	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	5	n.a	18
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Torgny.

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

References

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