Frans

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Franz [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Franz

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Fransinpoika Finland
Fransen Denmark Norway
Franson Norway Sweden
Franssen Denmark Norway
Fransson Faroe Islands Iceland Norway Sweden
Franssøn Norway
Fransøn Norway

Female

Fransdatter Denmark Norway
Fransintytär Finland
Fransdotter Norway Sweden
Fransdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Frans
Genitive: Frans'
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Frans
Accusative: Frans
Dative: Fransi
Genitive: Frans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Frans
Genitive: Fransin
Partitive: Fransia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Frans
Accusative: Frans
Dative: Frans
Genitive: Frans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Frans
Genitive: Frans'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Frans
Genitive: Frans' / Frans

Name Days

Finland Finland

4 October

Norway Norway

4 October

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

4 October

Sweden Sweden

4 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Frans Michael Franzén (9th February 1772 – 14th August 1847), Finland-Swedish poet
  • Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964, Finnish writer and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Literature, 1939)
  • Frans Osifoh Jeppsson Wall (born 19 December 1998), Swedish singer (Osifoh = Ika name meaning 'good things are always present')

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 12232 people were named Frans (percentage of first or only given name: 90 %) [11]

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&
Sweden Sweden[13]
3883 9164 0 10 3883 9154
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
15327
n.a.
9
n.a.
15318
Denmark Denmark[15]
436
n.a.
0
n.a.
436
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
13 39
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
10 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
247
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
247
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 Frans (m) Sources: [13][15][18][14]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Frans (m) Sources: [19]

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. details see Name Statistic tables