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Gaston

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

French name of uncertain meaning. Theories include:

1) French form of Old High German names containing the name element GEST [1] [2]

2) Originally an ethnic name for a 'Gascon' [1]

3) French form of Vaast/Waast (see Vedastus) [2] [3]

Related Names

Gaston ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gastonsson Iceland

Female

Gastonsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gaston
Genitive: Gastons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gaston
Genitive: Gastonin
Partitive: Gastonia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Gaston
Accusative: Gaston
Dative: Gastoni
Genitive: Gastons
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gaston
Genitive: Gastons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gaston
Genitive: Gastons

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 87 people were named Gaston (percentage of first or only given name: 21 %) [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]
139 352 0 0 139 352
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 77 0 0
n.a.
 77
Denmark Denmark[8]
25
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 25
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 19
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 Gaston.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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