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Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Nordic name see Dan 1, for the Slavic name see Dan 2
Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
Faroese
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of Daniel [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
2) Hebrew dan = 'judge' [1] [2] [4]
Related Names
For female forms see Dana, Dania, Danlína
Male
Dansson
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Female
Dansdóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see DANI
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Dan
|
Genitive: |
Dans
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Dan
|
Accusative: |
Dan
|
Dative: |
Dani
|
Genitive: |
Dans
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Dan
|
Genitive: |
Danin
|
Partitive: |
Dania
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Dan
|
Accusative: |
Dan
|
Dative: |
Dan
|
Genitive: |
Dans
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Dan
|
Genitive: |
Dans
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Dan
|
Genitive: |
Dans
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Name Days
Norway
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11 December
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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11 December
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Dan Turèll ("Onkel Danny", 19 March 1946 – 15 October 1993), Danish writer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 14,442 people were named Dan 3 (percentage of first or only given name: 92 %) [10]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[13] |
|
11577 |
22706 |
72 |
111 |
11505 |
22595 |
Denmark[14] |
|
6437 |
n.a. |
47 |
n.a. |
6390 |
n.a. |
Finland[15] |
|
n.a. |
2133 |
n.a. |
97 |
n.a. |
2036 |
Iceland[16] |
|
22 |
218 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[17] |
|
20 |
49 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
2273 |
n.a. |
28 |
n.a. |
2245 |
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
Sources: [13][14][18][15]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [19]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 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/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables