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Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Greenlandic
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Norwegian dialectal variant form of Egil [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See *AʒilaR
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Eigil
|
Genitive: |
Eigils
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Eigil
|
Genitive: |
Eigilin
|
Partitive: |
Eigiliä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Eigil
|
Genitive: |
Eigils
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Eigil
|
Genitive: |
Eigils
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 143 people were named Eigil (percentage of first or only given name: 35 %) [6]
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& |
---|
Denmark[7] |
|
1538 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
1538 |
n.a. |
Sweden[8] |
|
36 |
116 |
0 |
0 |
36 |
116 |
Greenland[9] |
|
21 |
45 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
22 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
22 |
Iceland[11] |
|
2 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
360 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
360 |
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Eigil.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no