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Gladys
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Usage
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Danish
Norwegian
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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
| Gladys | ♀ |   |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Gladys |
| Genitive: | Gladys' |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Gladys |
| Genitive: | Gladyksen |
| Partitive: | Gladysta |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Gladys |
| Genitive: | Gladys' |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Gladys |
| Genitive: | Gladys' / Gladys |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[8] |
 |
316 | 546 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway[9] |
|
174 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Denmark[10] |
|
121 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Finland[11] |
|
n.a. | 128 | 0 | 0 |
| #: 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 Gladys.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Heini Gruffudd: Welsh First Names (2003)
- ↑ Heini Gruffudd: Welsh Names for Children (2006)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi