Örn

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Icelandic and Swedish younger form of Ǫrn

Related Names

See Ǫrn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Arnarson

Female

Arnardóttir

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Örn
Accusative:	Örn
Dative:	Erni
Genitive:	Arnar

- Swedish
Nominative:	Örn
Genitive:	Örns

Further Information

• Iceland:
  • Officially approved as a given name
  • Officially rejected as a female given name on 18 December 2001

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1925

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1930-1959

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Dalarna
  • Nordsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 33 people were named Örn (percentage of first or only given name: 61 %)

• Örn is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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&
Iceland		572	4520	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		42	268	0	3	42	265
Denmark		11	n.a.	0	n.a.	11	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	22	0	0	n.a.	22
Greenland		0	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		n.a.	n.a.	0	n.a.	n.a.	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Örn.