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Male Name
Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
1) Creative spelling of John (English pronunciation) [1]
2) Short form of Dionysius [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
For female forms see Diona, Dionetta
Name Day
Denmark
|
6 July
|
Grammar
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Dion
|
Accusative: |
Dion
|
Dative: |
Dioni
|
Genitive: |
Dions
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
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[5] |
|
380 |
421 |
3 |
5 |
377 |
416 |
Denmark[6] |
|
419 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
418 |
n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
|
0 |
219 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
71 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
71 |
Iceland[9] |
|
4 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[10] |
|
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
81 |
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: [5][6][10][8]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables