Ellen f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Ellen m for the male version.

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Eleonora and its variants [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Variant form (Danish, Norwegian, English) of Helene and its variants [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

3) Pet form of Gabriella [4]

Related Names

Ellen
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Eln
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian

See also Ella, Erlen, Îlíne, Nelli

For male forms see Ellenius

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ellenarson Iceland

Female

Ellenardóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see ELL (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ellen
Genitive: Ellens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ellen
Genitive: Ellenin
Partitive: Elleniä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ellen
Accusative: Ellen
Dative: Ellen
Genitive: Ellenar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ellen
Genitive: Ellens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ellen
Genitive: Ellens

Name Days

Finland Finland

10 February

Norway Norway

21 May

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

10 February

Sweden Sweden

18 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

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[17]
15933 28499 15930 28492 3 7
Denmark Denmark[15]
12073
n.a.
12073
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[18]
n.a.
21977
n.a.
21975
n.a.
2
Iceland Iceland[19]
210 270
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[20]
74 192
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[21]
12449
n.a.
12449
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.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[17][15][21][18]:Name statistics for Ellen (f)

Sources: [17] [15] [21] [18]


Norwegian historic statistics trend[21]:
Norwegian historic statistics for Ellen (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ellen (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Ellen (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  10. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  13. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  14. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  19. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  20. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no