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Usage
Old Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Askr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Askr
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ask |
| Genitive: | Asks |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ask |
| Genitive: | Asks |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Ask |
| Genitive: | Asks |
Name Day
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1 July |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
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& | |
| Denmark[6] |
  |
639 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
639 | n.a. |
| Sweden[7] |
  |
82 | 228 | 0 | 7 | 82 | 221 |
 Greenland[8] |
  |
0 | 22 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[9] |
  |
2 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
4 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
4 |
| Norway[11] |
 |
1335 | n.a. |
7 | n.a. |
1328 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no