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Male Name
Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of ÆilífR [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See ÆilífR
Male
Eilifsen
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Eilifson
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Eilifssen
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Eilifsson
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Eilifssøn
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Eilifsøn
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Female
Eilifsdatter
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Eilifsdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Eilif
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Genitive: |
Eilifs
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Eilif
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Genitive: |
Eilifin
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Partitive: |
Eilifiä
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Eilif
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Genitive: |
Eilifs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Eilif
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Genitive: |
Eilifs
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Name Day
Norway
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24 October
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Eilif Armand (18 March 1921 – 28 November 1993), Norwegian actor
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 50 people were named Eilif (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [8]
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& |
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Denmark[9] |
|
139 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
139 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
16 |
60 |
0 |
0 |
16 |
60 |
Finland[11] |
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n.a. |
19 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
19 |
Norway[12] |
|
703 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
703 |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
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0 |
0 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [10][9][12][11]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/