Finn m

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

Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

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

Related Names

See Finnr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Finson Faroe Islands
Finnsen Norway
Finnson Sweden
Finnsson Iceland Sweden

Female

Finsdóttir Faroe Islands
Finnsdatter Norway
Finnsdotter Sweden
Finnsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Finn
Genitive: Finns
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Finn
Accusative: Finn
Dative: Finni
Genitive: Fins
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Finn
Genitive: Finnin
Partitive: Finniä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Finn
Accusative: Finn
Dative: Finn
Genitive: Finns
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Finn
Genitive: Finns
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Finn
Genitive: Finns

Name Days

Norway Norway

16 October

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

26 September

Sweden Sweden

16 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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 NNNobel.png (Economics, 2004)

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 745 people were named Finn m (percentage of first or only given name: 86 %) [8]
  • 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 Denmark[10]
15474
n.a.
0
n.a.
15474
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
965 1622 20 70 945 1552
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
346 0 0
n.a.
346
Greenland Greenland[13]
63 98
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
10 12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Finn (m) Sources: [11][10][15][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Finn (m) Sources: [16]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Finn (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. details see Name Statistic tables