Blog 2018

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December 2018

30 December 2018

44,444 names!

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24 December 2018

Merry Christmas to all of you!

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6 December 2018

Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! Trevlig självständighetsdag! Happy Independence Day, Finland! Let's celebrate with some nice Finnish names!

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November 2018

20 November 2018

Two new names added to the List of approved Icelandic names (and five rejected):
Female name: Reyla
Male name: Mortan

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October 2018

20 October 2018

Four new names added to the List of approved Icelandic names (and two rejected):
Female names: Abel, Binna
Male names: Lindi, Milli

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3 October 2018

44 000 names! To find your way through we recommend our Name Finder search tool.

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September 2018

16 September 2018

Another fantastic book for our library:

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16 September 2018

We learned (and added) something interesting about the name Mekkín and thought we'd give you some more nice female Icelandic M-names today:

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9 September 2018

Look what we found: Nordic Names mentioned as a reference in a new German book about given names!

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August 2018

19 August 2018

Aino and Leo - the Finnish statistics list of 2017 is online!

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5 August 2018

Eva and Elias - the Faroese statistics list of 2017 is online!

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July 2018

21 July 2018

Ida and William - the Danish statistics list of 2017 is online!

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7 July 2018

2 female names (Ínes, Rökkurdís) added to the List of approved Icelandic names. Sigríður rejected as a male given name.

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June 2018

30 June 2018

Some great new books for our bibliography!

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17 June 2018

Til hamingju með daginn! Happy Iceland National Day!

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15 June 2018

Do you want to know what the names of the Icelandic Football Team members mean? Have a look at the list!

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6 June 2018

Happy Swedish National Day!

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May 2018

17 May 2018

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1 May 2018

Hyvää Vappua! Glad Valborg! Glada Vappen!

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April 2018

27 April 2018

4 female names (Arntinna, Araminta, Emely, Ísdögg) added to the List of approved Icelandic names.

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21 April 2018

These names were very popular in Norway Norway 100 years ago. Some of them are still (or again) popular today.

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15 April 2018

4 female names (Alparós, Dóróthe, Nancy, Ýlfa) and 6 male names (Bambus, Levý, Líus, Lóni, Lúis, Tóti) added to the List of approved Icelandic names.

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1 April 2018

God påske! Gleðiligar páskir! Hyvää pääsiäistä! Poorskimi pilluarits! Gleðilega páska! Buorit Beassážat! Glad påsk!

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March 2018

23 March 2018

Have a nice 'Nordic Day' today! Denmark Faroe Islands Finland Greenland Iceland Norway Sami Sweden

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18 March 2018

Emilía/Emelía and Alexander - the Icelandic statistics list of 2016 is online!

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4 March 2018

These names were very popular in Sweden Sweden 100 years ago. Some of them are still (or again) popular today.

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February 2018

24 February 2018

Three female names (Guðna, Íselín, Ljóney) and four male names (Brimþór, Geimar, Maríon, Sólúlfur) added to the List of approved Icelandic names. Two female names (Alex, Zelda) and four male names (Andrej, Lind, Theo, Zion) rejected.

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17 February 2018

We are collecting the names of the Nordic Olympic medalists on a special name list for you here:

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11 February 2018

Sofie and Jakob - the Norwegian statistics list of 2017 is online!

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6 February 2018

Happy Sami National Day!

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1 February 2018

Alice and William - the Swedish statistics list of 2017 is online!

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January 2018

27 January 2018

Here are some names, which were typically used about 20-25 years ago:

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7 January 2018

Here are some names used in Sønderjylland (in the very south of Denmark and the very north of Germany).

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2 January 2018

Have a look at this interesting selection of names with a J as a second letter following a consonant.

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1 January 2018

Godt Nytår! · Gott Nýggjár! · Onnellista Uutta Vuotta! · Ukiortaami Pilluaritsi! · Gleðilegt Nýtt Ár! · Godt Nyttår! · Buorre Ođđa Jahki! · Gott Nytt År!

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