Nordic Names

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Gay m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Gay f for the female version.

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

1) Male usage of Gay f [1] [2]

2) Irish pet form of Gabriel [1]

Related Names

Gay ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Gey ♂ Swedish

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gay
Genitive: Gayn
Partitive: Gayta / Gaytä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gay
Genitive: Gays
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gay
Genitive: Gays

Further Information

Due to its additional meaning 'homosexual', the name has dropped out of use in English-speaking countries

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 103 people were named Gay m (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [4]

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[5]
49 95 4 23 45 72
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 44
n.a.
 26
n.a.
 18
Denmark Denmark[7]
7
n.a.
 7
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
9
n.a.
 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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 Gay.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  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. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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