Barnabas

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Βαρναβας (Barnabas), a Greek form of an Aramaic name of uncertain meaning. Theories include:

1) son of the god 'Nebo'

2) son of encouragement

3) son of consolation

4) son of the prophet

Related Names

Barnabas	♂
Barnaby	♂

See also Barney, Pangnaparse

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Barnabas
Genitive:	Barnabas'

- Finnish
Nominative:	Barnabas
Genitive:	Barnabaksen / Barnabaan
Partitive:	Barnabasta

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Barnabas
Genitive:	Barnabas'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Barnabas
Genitive:	Barnabas' / Barnabas

Name Days

Denmark

11 June

Faroe Islands

11 June

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1920-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Sydsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 11 people were named Barnabas (percentage of first or only given name: 82 %)

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		33	48	0	0	33	48
Greenland		10	41	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	22	0	0	n.a.	22
Denmark		10	n.a.	0	n.a.	10	n.a.
Iceland		1	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		19	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	19	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 Barnabas.