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Eldon

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) New combination of ELI and DON [1]

2) Variant form of Eldor [1]

2) English name, transferred use of the surname, originally a place name meaning 'Ella's hill' (Old English dūn = 'hill') [2] [1]

Related Names

Eldon ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Eldonsson Iceland

Female

Eldonsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eldon
Genitive: Eldons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eldon
Genitive: Eldonin
Partitive: Eldonia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Eldon
Accusative: Eldon
Dative: Eldon / Eldoni
Genitive: Eldons
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eldon
Genitive: Eldons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eldon
Genitive: Eldons

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 42 people were named Eldon (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [5]

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&
Sweden Sweden[6]
23 59 0 2 23 57
Iceland Iceland[7]
2 35
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 9 0 0
n.a.
 9
Denmark Denmark[9]
3
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 3
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 5
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Eldon.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  4. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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