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Darius

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Latin form of Δαρειος (Dareios) , which is a Greek form of the Persian name Dârayavahush

First element (Dâraya-):

Persian dâraya = 'to possess'

Last element (-vahush):

Persian vahu = 'good'

[1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Dario ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Darius ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Daríus ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

For female forms see Daria

See also Dariusz (Polish)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Darius
Genitive: Darius'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Darius
Genitive: Dariuksen
Partitive: Dariusta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Darius
Genitive: Darius'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Darius
Genitive: Darius'

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 12 people were named Darius (percentage of first or only given name: 8 %) [4]

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 Sweden[5]
345 514 0 0 345 514
Denmark Denmark[6]
211
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 211
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 363 0 0
n.a.
 363
Iceland Iceland[8]
53 54
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
638
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 638
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Darius.


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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