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Usage
Old Norse
Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic spelling of Ephraim [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Ephraim
Male
Efraimsen
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Efraimsson
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Female
Efraimsdatter
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Efraimsdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Efraim
|
Genitive: |
Efraims
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Efraim
|
Genitive: |
Efraimin
|
Partitive: |
Efraimia
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Efraim
|
Genitive: |
Efraims
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Efraim
|
Genitive: |
Efraims
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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
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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& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
138 |
570 |
0 |
2 |
138 |
568 |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
517 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
517 |
Greenland[9] |
|
29 |
136 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[10] |
|
17 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
17 |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
12 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
12 |
n.a. |
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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Olav Veka: Norsk etternamnleksikon (2001)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/