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Dean m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Dean f for the female version.

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname

1) From a place name, Old English denu, Middle English dene = 'valley' [1]

2) Old English dean = 'dean, ecclesiastical supervisor' (Latin decanus) [1] [2]

Related Names

Dean ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish

For female forms see Deanna

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dean
Genitive: Deans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dean
Genitive: Deanin
Partitive: Deaniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dean
Genitive: Deans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dean
Genitive: Deans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 24 people were named Dean m (percentage of first or only given name: 58 %) [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]
264 518 2 13 262 505
Denmark Denmark[6]
343
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 343
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 272
n.a.
 3
n.a.
 269
Iceland Iceland[8]
8 19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
9 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
86
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 86
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.

 

Statistics as male name

Recent statistics trend[5][6][10][7]:Name statistics for Dean (m)

Sources: [5] [6] [10] [7]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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