Eigil

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Greenland Greenlandic
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Norwegian dialectal variant form of Egil [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See *AʒilaR

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eigil
Genitive: Eigils
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eigil
Genitive: Eigilin
Partitive: Eigiliä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eigil
Genitive: Eigils
Sweden - 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

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&
Denmark Denmark[7]
1538
n.a.
0
n.a.
1538
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
36 116 0 0 36 116
Greenland Greenland[9]
21 45
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
22 0 0
n.a.
22
Iceland Iceland[11]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no