Edmund

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) English younger form of the Eadmund [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Sometimes used as a modern form of Emund (see Øymundr) [1]

Related Names

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

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Edmundson Sweden
Edmundsson Sweden

Female

Edmundsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Edmund
Genitive: Edmunds
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Edmund
Genitive: Edmundin
Partitive: Edmundia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Edmund
Genitive: Edmunds
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Edmund
Genitive: Edmunds

Name Days

Norway Norway

16 November

Sweden Sweden

18 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 2,465 people were named Edmund (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [6]

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[7]
201 1173 0 3 201 1170
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
460 0 0
n.a.
460
Denmark Denmark[9]
135
n.a.
0
n.a.
135
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
5 13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
536
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
536
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.

 

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Edmund (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no