Efraim

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Ephraim [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Ephraim

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Efraimsen Norway
Efraimsson Sweden

Female

Efraimsdatter Norway
Efraimsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Efraim
Genitive: Efraims
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Efraim
Genitive: Efraimin
Partitive: Efraimia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Efraim
Genitive: Efraims
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Efraim
Genitive: Efraims

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1,900 people were named Efraim (percentage of first or only given name: 5 %) [5]

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]
138 570 0 2 138 568
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
517 0 0
n.a.
517
Greenland Greenland[9]
29 136
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
17
n.a.
0
n.a.
17
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
12
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Efraim (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Efraim (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. Olav Veka: Norsk etternamnleksikon (2001)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  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. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/