Edison

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname (patronym) meaning 'son of Ead/Edd' (short forms of Old English names containing the name element AUD) [1] [2]

Related Names

Edison
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: Edison
Genitive: Edisons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Edison
Genitive: Edisonin
Partitive: Edisonia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Edison
Genitive: Edisons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Edison
Genitive: Edisons

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

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[3]
193 273 0 0 193 273
Denmark Denmark[4]
46
n.a.
0
n.a.
46
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
45 0 0
n.a.
45
Norway Norway[6]
29
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
29
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 Edison.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. P. H. Reaney and R. M. Wilson: Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (2005)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no