Alban

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

German short form of Albanus (see also -an)

Related Names

See Albanus

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Alban
Genitive:	Albans

- Finnish
Nominative:	Alban
Genitive:	Albanin
Partitive:	Albania

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Alban
Genitive:	Albans

- Swedish
Nominative:	Alban
Genitive:	Albans

Further Information

Pronunciation

• Swedish: ['alban] (key)

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 14th century
• Sweden: 1836 (Göteborg, Västergötland)
• Norway: ca 1940

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: -1919

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Västsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 244 people were named Alban (percentage of first or only given name: 17 %)

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&
Sweden		250	331	0	2	250	329
Denmark		69	n.a.	0	n.a.	69	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	120	0	0	n.a.	120
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		107	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	107	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	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 Alban.