Dís

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse dís = 'female deity', 'woman', 'goddess' (see DIS for more information) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Diis
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian
Dis
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Swedish
Dís
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Faroese Icelandic Old Norse

See also Dísa, Dissý

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Dísarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Dísardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see DIS (name element)

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Dís
Accusative: Dís
Dative: Dís
Genitive: Dísar
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Dís
Accusative: Dís
Dative: Dís
Genitive: Dísar

Further Information

Trivia

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&
Iceland Iceland[10]
11 947
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
0 10 0 10 0 0
Denmark Denmark[12]
1
n.a.
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[15]
0 0
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dís.


References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  6. Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  7. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/