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Graham
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Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Scottish and English name
From a Scottish surname, which derives from a placename in Lincolnshire (today Grantham): Old English grand = 'gravel' and hām = 'homestead' [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
| Graeme | ♂ |   |
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| Graham | ♂ |  |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Graham |
| Genitive: | Grahams |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Graham |
| Genitive: | Grahamin |
| Partitive: | Grahamia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Graham |
| Genitive: | Grahams |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Graham |
| Genitive: | Grahams |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
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[5] |
|
133 | 316 | 0 | 7 | 133 | 309 |
| Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
207 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
207 |
| Denmark[7] |
|
76 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
76 | n.a. |
 Iceland[8] |
  |
2 | 7 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[9] |
|
72 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
72 | n.a. |
 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 Graham.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/