Dylan

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Welsh name

1) Welsh dylan = 'ocean, sea, the deep'

2) Welsh dy = 'great' and llanw = 'tide, flow'

Related Names

Dilan	♂
Dillon	♂
Dylan	♂

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Dylansson

Female

Dylansdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Dylan
Genitive:	Dylans

- Finnish
Nominative:	Dylan
Genitive:	Dylanin
Partitive:	Dylania

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Dylan
Accusative:	Dylan
Dative:	Dylani
Genitive:	Dylans

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Dylan
Genitive:	Dylans

- Swedish
Nominative:	Dylan
Genitive:	Dylans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland:
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 29 June 2015
  • Officially rejected again as a given name on 21 April 2020
  • Officially approved as a given name on 26 January 2022

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		1065	1471	30	64	1035	1407
Finland		n.a.	249	0	0	n.a.	249
Denmark		104	n.a.	5	n.a.	99	n.a.
Iceland		4	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		155	n.a.	4	n.a.	151	n.a.
Greenland		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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