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Male Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Erlingr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Erlingr
Male
| Erlingsen
|
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| Erlingson
|
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| Erlingsson
|
|
Female
| Erlingsdotter
|
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| Erlingsdóttir
|
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Name Days
|
Norway
|
19 June
|
|
Sweden
|
11 October
|
Grammar
- Danish |
| Nominative: |
Erling
|
| Genitive: |
Erlings
|
- Finnish |
| Nominative: |
Erling
|
| Genitive: |
Erlingin
|
| Partitive: |
Erlingiä
|
- Icelandic |
| Nominative: |
Erling
|
| Accusative: |
Erling
|
| Dative: |
Erling
|
| Genitive: |
Erlings
|
- Norwegian |
| Nominative: |
Erling
|
| Genitive: |
Erlings
|
- Swedish |
| Nominative: |
Erling
|
| Genitive: |
Erlings
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Erling Eidem (23 April 1880 – 14 April 1972), Swedish theologian (archbishop of Uppsala 1931–1950)
- Erling Heymann Olsen (18 April 1927 - 27 June 2011), Danish politician
- Erling Brøndum (11 July 1930 – 4 August 2017), Danish journalist and politician
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& |
|---|
Denmark[9] |
|
5301 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
5301 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
1292 |
6882 |
0 |
2 |
1292 |
6880 |
Iceland[11] |
|
119 |
160 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
290 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
290 |
Greenland[13] |
|
20 |
37 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
5935 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
5935 |
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][14][12]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables