Galti

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name and byname

Old Norse galti = 'boar', 'hog' [1] [2] [3]

Boar
Boar
Image by Valentin Panzirsch,[4]
License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA

Related Names

Galt
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Danish
Galti
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic Old Norse

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Galtason Iceland

Female

Galtadóttir Iceland

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Galti
Accusative: Galta
Dative: Galta
Genitive: Galta

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Iceland:
    • 1930s [3]
    • The name was taken from the list of approved names in 1989 [3]
    • Officially approved as a given name on 11 September 2017 [5]

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[6]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Galti.


References

  1. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  2. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Wikimedia Commons: Image by Valentin Panzirsch, source & license
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/