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Nordic Names

Dexter

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the occupational surname, earlier Dyster

Old English *deaʒestre, *deʒestre, *deʒstre = 'dyer' [1]

Related Names

Dex ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Dexter ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dexter
Genitive: Dexters
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dexter
Genitive: Dexterin
Partitive: Dexteriä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Dexter
Accusative: Dexter
Dative: Dexter
Genitive: Dexters
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dexter
Genitive: Dexters
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dexter
Genitive: Dexters

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

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[3]
820 1135 0 2 820 1133
Denmark Denmark[4]
119
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 118
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 49 0 0
n.a.
 49
Iceland Iceland[6]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
87
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 87
n.a.
Greenland 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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Dexter (m) Sources: [3][4][7][5]


References

  1. ↑ P. H. Reaney and R. M. Wilson: Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (2005)
  2. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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