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Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Latin form of the Greek name Αλεξανδρος (Alexandros)
First element (Αλεξ-):
Greek αλεξω (alexo) = 'to defend, help'
Last element (-ανδρος):
Greek ανηρ (anér), genitive ανδρος (andros) = 'man'
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Related Names
See also
- Variant forms: Alasdair (Gaelic), Alejandro (Spanish), Aleksandar (Serbian, Macedonian), Aleksandr (Russian), Alessandro (Italian), Alexandre (French), Alexandru (Romanian), Iskandar (Arabic)
- Female forms: Alexandra
- Short and pet forms: Aake, Aksu, Alek, Alex, Ali, Alla, Lex, Saki, Salttu, Sampsa, Sandel, Sander, Sándor, Sante, Sasa, Sasja, Xander
Male
Alexanderinpoika
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Alexandersen
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Alexanderson
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Alexanderssen
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Alexandersson
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Alexanderssøn
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Alexandersøn
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Female
Alexanderdatter
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Alexanderintytär
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Alexandersdatter
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Alexandersdotter
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Alexandersdóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see ANDR (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Alexander
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Genitive: |
Alexanders
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Alexander
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Genitive: |
Alexanderin
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Partitive: |
Alexanderia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Alexander
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Accusative: |
Alexander
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Dative: |
Alexander
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Genitive: |
Alexanders
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Alexander
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Genitive: |
Alexanders
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Alexander
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Genitive: |
Alexanders
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Name Days
Denmark
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18 March
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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11 September
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Sweden
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12 December
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Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Alexander Lange Kielland (18 February 1849 – 6 April 1906), Norwegian realistic writer
- Alexander Ally Karim (born 26 May 1976), Swedish actor
- Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård (born 25 August 1976), Swedish actor
- Hans Kongelige Højhed Prins Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander til Danmark, Greve af Monpezat (His Royal Highness Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat), born 8 January 2011
- Alexander Erik Hubertus Bertil, Prins av Sverige, Hertig av Södermanland (Prince of Sweden, Duke of Södermanland), born 19 April 2016
Placenames
- Alsønderup in northern Sjælland
Trivia
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[15] |
|
39094 |
85298 |
42 |
111 |
39052 |
85187 |
Denmark[16] |
|
14532 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
14530 |
n.a. |
Finland[17] |
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n.a. |
21157 |
n.a. |
52 |
n.a. |
21105 |
Iceland[18] |
|
1082 |
1349 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[19] |
|
33 |
60 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[20] |
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n.a. |
n.a. |
6 |
n.a. |
11820 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [15][16][20][17]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [21]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Alexander (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables