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Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Latinised form of the Old High German name Egino (see Agino) and other Old High German names beginning with Egin- (see EGG and AGI) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2) Latin form of the Greek name Aigon, Greek aix = 'goat' [2]
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Goat
Image by Armin Kübelbeck,[8] licensed under Creative Commons |
Related Names
See also Edgon
For female forms see Egonia
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Egon
|
Genitive: |
Egons
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Egon
|
Genitive: |
Egonin
|
Partitive: |
Egonia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Egon
|
Genitive: |
Egons
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Egon
|
Genitive: |
Egons
|
Name Days
Norway
|
5 November
|
Sweden
|
11 March
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 10,776 people were named Egon (percentage of first or only given name: 20 %) [9]
- Egon was a heavy storm in Denmark and Sweden in January 2015.
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[10] |
|
1213 |
5146 |
0 |
4 |
1213 |
5142 |
Denmark[11] |
|
3634 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
3633 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
322 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
322 |
Greenland[13] |
|
13 |
44 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
1 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
146 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
146 |
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][11][15][12]
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Armin Kübelbeck, source & license
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no