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Charles
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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Greenlandic
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
English and French form of Karl [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
| Charle | ♂ |   |
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| Charles | ♂ |   |
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See also:
Variant forms: Karles, Karlis
Female forms: Charline, Charlize
Pet forms: Charlot, Charly
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Charlesarson |
|
| Charlesen |
|
Female
| Charlesardóttir |
|
| Charlesdatter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Charles |
| Genitive: | Charles' |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Charles |
| Genitive: | Charlesin |
| Partitive: | Charlesia |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Charles |
| Accusative: | Charles |
| Dative: | Charlesi |
| Genitive: | Charlesar |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Charles |
| Genitive: | Charles' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Charles |
| Genitive: | Charles'/Charles |
Name Day
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27 April |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Denmark:
- Sweden:
- Västergötland (19th century) see map [9]
- Halland (19th century) see map [9]
- Västergötland (20th century) [10]
- Halland (20th century) [10]
Namesakes
- Charles John Pedersen, 3 October 1904 – 26 October 1989, American organic chemist with Norwegian roots, Nobel laureate
(Chemistry, 1987)
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[11] |
|
1800 | 6222 | 4 | 22 | 1796 | 6200 |
| Finland[12] |
 |
n.a. |
1845 | n.a. |
6 | n.a. |
1839 |
| Denmark[13] |
|
670 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
670 | n.a. |
| Iceland[14] |
  |
19 | 39 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greenland[15] |
|
12 | 45 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[16] |
|
675 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
675 | 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: Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Charles (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no