Finn m

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Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the female name see Finn f, for the Gaelic name see Finn 2

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Finnr

Related Names

See Finnr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Finson
Finnsen
Finnson
Finnsson

Female

Finsdóttir
Finnsdatter
Finnsdotter
Finnsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Finn
Genitive:	Finns

- Faroese
Nominative:	Finn
Accusative:	Finn
Dative:	Finni
Genitive:	Fins

- Finnish
Nominative:	Finn
Genitive:	Finnin
Partitive:	Finniä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Finn
Accusative:	Finn
Dative:	Finn
Genitive:	Finns

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Finn
Genitive:	Finns

- Swedish
Nominative:	Finn
Genitive:	Finns

Name Days

Norway

16 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

26 September

Sweden

16 October

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden (in modern times): 1873

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1930-1959
  • 1930-1939
• Denmark:
  • 1940-1959

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Hedmark (Odalen)
  • Vestlandet (esp. Sogn og Fjordane)
  • Austlandet
• Denmark:
  • København
  • Bornholm
  • Sønderjylland
• Sweden:
  • Dalarna (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige
  • Dalarna

Namesakes

• Finn Rudolf Gustavsen (22 April 1926 – 20 July 2005), Norwegian politician
• Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (1895 - 1928), Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer
• Finn Methling (8 August 1917 – 20 October 2010), Danish screenwriter
• Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943), Norwegian economist and Nobel laureate (Economics, 2004)

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 745 people were named Finn m (percentage of first or only given name: 86 %)

• Finn was a heavy storm in Norway in December 2004.

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		15474	n.a.	0	n.a.	15474	n.a.
Sweden		965	1622	20	70	945	1552
Finland		n.a.	346	0	0	n.a.	346
Greenland		63	98	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		10	12	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		6227	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	6227	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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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Finn (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.