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Brian
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Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Celtic name of uncertain meaning.
Theories include
1) Old Celtic *brig = 'high', 'noble' [1] [2]
2) Old Celtic bre = 'hill' [1] [3] [4] [2]
Related Names
| Brian | ♂ |   |
|
| Briand | ♂ |   |
|
| Brion | ♂ | |
|
| Brjánn | ♂ |  |
 
|
| Bryan | ♂ |  |
|
For female forms see Brianna
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Briansson |
|
Female
| Briansdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brian |
| Genitive: | Brians |
| - Faroese |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brian |
| Accusative: | Brian |
| Dative: | Briani |
| Genitive: | Brians |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brian |
| Genitive: | Brianin |
| Partitive: | Briania |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brian |
| Genitive: | Brians |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Brian |
| Genitive: | Brians |
Name Days
|
|
5 September |
|
|
5 September |
Further Information
- Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name [5]
Earliest Documented Usage
- Norway: late 19th century (plus one person in 1461) [4]
- Denmark: 20th century [3] [2]
- Greenland: 1949 [6]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Brian Nielsen (born 1 April 1965), Danish professional boxer
- Brian Laudrup (born 22 February 1969), Danish former professional football player
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[7] |
|
18144 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
18144 | n.a. |
| Sweden[8] |
|
923 | 1426 | 0 | 2 | 923 | 1424 |
| Finland[9] |
 |
n.a. |
628 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
628 |
| Greenland[10] |
  |
106 | 146 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Iceland[11] |
  |
13 | 24 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
|
828 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
828 | 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: Top List Ranking
Sources: [13]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables