Erling

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Erlingr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Erlingr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Erlingsen Norway
Erlingson Sweden
Erlingsson Iceland Norway Sweden

Female

Erlingsdotter Sweden
Erlingsdóttir Iceland

Name Days

Norway Norway

19 June

Sweden Sweden

11 October

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Erling
Genitive: Erlings
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Erling
Genitive: Erlingin
Partitive: Erlingiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Erling
Accusative: Erling
Dative: Erling
Genitive: Erlings
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Erling
Genitive: Erlings
Sweden - 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

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&
Denmark Denmark[8]
5301
n.a.
0
n.a.
5301
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
1292 6882 0 2 1292 6880
Iceland Iceland[10]
119 160
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
290 0 0
n.a.
290
Greenland Greenland[12]
20 37
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
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

Name statistics for Erling (m) Sources: [9][8][13][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Erling (m) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Erling (m)


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. details see Name Statistic tables