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Don
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Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
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Origin and Meaning
English short form of Donald [1] [2]
Related Names
See Dòmhnall
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Don |
| Genitive: | Dons |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Don |
| Genitive: | Donin |
| Partitive: | Donia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Don |
| Genitive: | Dons |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Don |
| Genitive: | Dons |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Don (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %) [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[5] |
  |
139 | 393 | 2 | 18 | 137 | 375 |
| Denmark[6] |
 |
70 | n.a. |
3 | n.a. |
67 | n.a. |
| Finland[7] |
 |
n.a. |
132 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
132 |
 Greenland[8] |
  |
0 | 8 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[9] |
|
1 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[10] |
|
100 | n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
96 | 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 Don.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1890 https://riksarkivet.se/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no