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Desire f
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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Desire m for the male version.
Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic variant spelling of Désirée [1]
Related Names
See Désirée
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Desire |
| Genitive: | Desires |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Desire |
| Genitive: | Desiren |
| Partitive: | Desireä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Desire |
| Genitive: | Desires |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Desire |
| Genitive: | Desires |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 73 people were named Desire f (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %) [3]
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[4] |
  |
42 | 168 | 27 | 147 | 15 | 21 |
| Finland[5] |
 |
n.a. |
223 | n.a. |
218 | n.a. |
5 |
| Denmark[6] |
 |
22 | n.a. |
16 | n.a. |
6 | n.a. |
| Norway[7] |
|
61 | n.a. |
52 | n.a. |
9 | n.a. |
 Greenland[8] |
  |
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Desire.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/