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Christel
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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
South German female pet form of Christina and its variant forms [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
| Christel | ♀ |   |
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| Christl | ♀ |   |
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| Cristel | ♀ | |
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| Kristel | ♀ |  |
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| Kristell | ♀ |  |
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| Kristil | ♀ | |
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Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Christelarson |
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Female
| Christelardóttir |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Christel |
| Genitive: | Christels |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Christel |
| Genitive: | Christelin |
| Partitive: | Christeliä |
| - Icelandic |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Christel |
| Accusative: | Christel |
| Dative: | Christel |
| Genitive: | Christelar |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Christel |
| Genitive: | Christels |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Christel |
| Genitive: | Christels |
Name Days
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15 March |
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15 March |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Denmark: 19th century [4]
- Sweden: 1897 [1] [3]
- Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 16 October 2013 [6]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Christel Andrée Julie Louise Marott (née Brián Schwarck, 6 December 1919 - 2 May 1992), Danish cartoonist, painter, illustrator and sculptor
| The German pronunciation of Christel can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de. |
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[7] |
|
2934 | 4945 | 2932 | 4941 | 2 | 4 |
| Denmark[8] |
|
1222 | n.a. |
1222 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
876 | n.a. |
876 | 0 | 0 |
| Iceland[10] |
  |
9 | 15 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[11] |
  |
3 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
|
624 | n.a. |
624 | n.a. |
n.a. |
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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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Christel.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no