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Gils
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Usage
Old Norse
Swedish
Icelandic
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
1) Variant form of Gisle and Gísli [1] [2] [3]
2) Variant form of Giles (see Gilius) [3]
Related Names
| Gils | ♂ |   |
|
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Gilsson |
|
Female
| Gilsdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Gils |
| Accusative: | Gils |
| Dative: | Gils |
| Genitive: | Gils |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Gils |
| Genitive: | Gils' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Gils |
| Genitive: | Gils' / Gils |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Trivia
- Gils is also used as an Icelandic horse name
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& | |
| Iceland[5] |
  |
6 | 21 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Sweden[6] |
|
0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
 Denmark[7] |
|
1 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
  |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gils.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/