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Dag
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Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of DagR [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See DagR
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dag |
| Genitive: | Dags |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dag |
| Genitive: | Dagin |
| Partitive: | Dagia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dag |
| Genitive: | Dags |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dag |
| Genitive: | Dags |
Name Days
|
|
11 September |
|
|
9 June |
|
|
16 September |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (29 July 1905 - 18 September 1961), Swedish diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel laureate
(Peace, 1961) - Dag Åke Sigvard Malmberg (born 18 January 1953), Swedish actor and director
- Dag Krister "Dagge" Volle (pseudonym "Denniz PoP", 26 April 1963 – 30 August 1998), Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 3,326 people were named Dag (percentage of first or only given name: 88 %) [5]
- Dag was a heavy storm in Norway in January 1996.
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[6] |
  |
2361 | 4365 | 0 | 3 | 2361 | 4362 |
| Denmark[7] |
 |
124 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
123 | n.a. |
| Finland[8] |
 |
n.a. |
184 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
184 |
 Greenland[9] |
  |
0 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[10] |
|
1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[11] |
 |
9296 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
9296 | 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
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no