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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]
Related Names
See Erlingr
Male
Erlingsen
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Erlingson
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Erlingsson
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Female
Erlingsdotter
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Erlingsdóttir
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Name Days
Norway
|
19 June
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Sweden
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11 October
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Erling
|
Genitive: |
Erlings
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Erling
|
Genitive: |
Erlingin
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Partitive: |
Erlingiä
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Erling
|
Accusative: |
Erling
|
Dative: |
Erling
|
Genitive: |
Erlings
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Erling
|
Genitive: |
Erlings
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Erling
|
Genitive: |
Erlings
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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[8] |
|
5301 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
5301 |
n.a. |
Sweden[9] |
|
1292 |
6882 |
0 |
2 |
1292 |
6880 |
Iceland[10] |
|
119 |
160 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
290 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
290 |
Greenland[12] |
|
20 |
37 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [9][8][13][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [14]
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)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables