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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Florence m for the male version.
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
French and English form of Florentia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See also Florry
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Florence
|
Genitive: |
Florences
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Florence
|
Genitive: |
Florencen
|
Partitive: |
Florencea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Florence
|
Genitive: |
Florences
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Florence
|
Genitive: |
Florences
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2,491 people were named Florence f (percentage of first or only given name: 35 %) [7]
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& |
---|
Sweden[8] |
|
829 |
2369 |
829 |
2357 |
0 |
12 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
331 |
n.a. |
331 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[10] |
|
118 |
n.a. |
118 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Iceland[11] |
|
7 |
11 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
139 |
n.a. |
139 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[8][10][12][9]:
Sources: [8] [10] [12] [9]
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/