Carsten

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Karsten [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Karsten

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Carstensen Denmark Norway
Carstenssen Norway
Carstensson Sweden
Carstenssøn Norway
Carstensøn Norway

Female

Carstensdatter Denmark Norway
Carstensdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Carsten
Genitive: Carstens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Carsten
Genitive: Carstenin
Partitive: Carstenia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Carsten
Genitive: Carstens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Carsten
Genitive: Carstens

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 440 people were named Carsten (percentage of first or only given name: 26 %) [5]

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 Denmark[6]
18175
n.a.
0
n.a.
18175
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
434 775 0 0 434 775
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
181 0 0
n.a.
181
Greenland Greenland[9]
38 52
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
562
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
562
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Carsten (m) Sources: [7][6][11][8]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Carsten (m)


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no