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Gladys

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English form of the Welsh name Gwladus [1] [2] or Gwladys: [3] [4]

1) Female form of the Welsh name Gwledig = 'ruler' [5] [6]

2) Welsh form of Claudia [5] [3] [4]

Related Names

Gladis ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Gladys ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Gledis ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian
Glädis ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gladys
Genitive: Gladys'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gladys
Genitive: Gladyksen
Partitive: Gladysta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gladys
Genitive: Gladys'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gladys
Genitive: Gladys' / Gladys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Gladys Raknerud (née White Nilssen, 26 June 1912 - 28 January 1997), Norwegian visual artist

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[8]
315 545 315 543 0 2
Denmark Denmark[9]
115
n.a.
 115
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 139
n.a.
 139 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
4 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
n.a.
n.a.
 165
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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 Gladys.


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Heini Gruffudd: Welsh First Names (2003)
  6. ↑ Heini Gruffudd: Welsh Names for Children (2006)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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