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. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.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/