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Elvin
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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic form of Elwin [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Elwin
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Elvinsson |
|
Female
| Elvinsdotter |
|
| Elvinsdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Elvin |
| Genitive: | Elvins |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Elvin |
| Genitive: | Elvinin |
| Partitive: | Elviniä |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Elvin |
| Accusative: | Elvin |
| Dative: | Elvin |
| Genitive: | Elvins |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Elvin |
| Genitive: | Elvins |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Elvin |
| Genitive: | Elvins |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Norway: 1831 (Sandefjord) [5]
- Sweden: 1870 [2] [4]
- Denmark: 20th century [3]
- Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 20 October 2004 [6]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
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[7] |
  |
2055 | 2545 | 30 | 37 | 2025 | 2508 |
| Denmark[8] |
 |
252 | n.a. |
15 | n.a. |
237 | n.a. |
| Finland[9] |
 |
n.a. |
182 | n.a. |
8 | n.a. |
174 |
 Greenland[10] |
  |
0 | 14 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Iceland[11] |
  |
2 | 5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
|
153 | n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
149 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables