Calvin

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English name taken from the French surname of the French Protestant theologian Jean Calvin (1509-64). The surname meant originally 'little bald one', from a diminutive of calve, a Norman and Picard form of French chauve = 'bald' [1]

Related Names

Calvin
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Calvin
Genitive: Calvins
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Calvin
Genitive: Calvinin
Partitive: Calvinia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Calvin
Genitive: Calvins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Calvin
Genitive: Calvins

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 Sweden[2]
152 211 2 4 150 207
Denmark Denmark[3]
249
n.a.
0
n.a.
249
n.a.
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
97 0 0
n.a.
97
Greenland Greenland[5]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[6]
2 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
74
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
74
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 Calvin.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  3. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  6. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no