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Astor
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Origin and Meaning
1) From an English surname, originally a nickname for someone resembling a bird of prey. From Old Provençal astur = 'goshawk' [1] [2] [3]
2) Younger form of Ásþór [1] [2] [3]
3) From an unknown German surname [4]
Related Names
| Asthor | ♂ |   |
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| Astor | ♂ |   |
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Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Astorson |
|
| Astorsson |
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Female
| Astorsdotter |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Astor |
| Genitive: | Astors |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Astor |
| Genitive: | Astorin |
| Partitive: | Astoria |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Astor |
| Genitive: | Astors |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Astor |
| Genitive: | Astors |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[6] |
|
1 | 3 | 282 | 950 |
| Norway[7] |
|
0 | n.a. | 117 | n.a. |
| Denmark[8] |
 |
0 | n.a. | 18 | n.a. |
| Finland[9] |
|
0 | 0 | n.a. | 50 |
| #: 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: References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi