Earl

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Old English eorl = 'nobleman', 'warrior' [1]

Related Names

Earl
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Cognates

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Earl
Genitive: Earls
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Earl
Genitive: Earlin
Partitive: Earlia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Earl
Genitive: Earls
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Earl
Genitive: Earls

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 21 people were named Earl (percentage of first or only given name: 43 %) [2]

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[4]
15 76 2 3 13 73
Finland Finland[3]
n.a.
58 0 0
n.a.
58
Denmark Denmark[5]
10
n.a.
0
n.a.
10
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
13
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Earl.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no