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Male Name
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
English younger form of Eadweard [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Eadweard
Male
Edwardinpoika
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Edwardsen
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Edwardson
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Edwardssen
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Edwardsson
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Edwardsøn
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Female
Edwardintytär
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Edwardsdatter
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Edwardsdotter
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Edwardsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Edward
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Genitive: |
Edwards
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Edward
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Genitive: |
Edwardin
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Partitive: |
Edwardia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Edward
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Accusative: |
Edward
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Dative: |
Edward
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Genitive: |
Edwards
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Edward
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Genitive: |
Edwards
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Edward
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Genitive: |
Edwards
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 670 people were named Edward (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [8]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[10] |
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2377 |
6544 |
0 |
28 |
2377 |
6516 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
2685 |
n.a. |
7 |
n.a. |
2678 |
Denmark[12] |
|
393 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
393 |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
|
63 |
133 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
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0 |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
857 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
857 |
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
Sources: [10][12][15][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Edward (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables