Edin 1

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Male Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Serbo-Croatian name see Edin 2

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Male form of Edine (see Edina) [1] [2]

2) Sometimes misinterpreted as a variant form of Edwin (see Eadwine) [3]

Related Names

Edin
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

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Edin
Genitive: Edins
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Edin
Genitive: Edinin
Partitive: Ediniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Edin
Genitive: Edins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Edin
Genitive: Edins

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Edin Holme (24th May 1865 - 1 October 1927), Norwegian poet

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 20 people were named Edin 1 (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [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 Sweden[5]
1076 1168 2 7 1074 1161
Denmark Denmark[6]
255
n.a.
0
n.a.
255
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
77 0 0
n.a.
77
Iceland Iceland[8]
4 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
314
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
314
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 Edin (m) Sources: [5][6][10][7]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no