Grim

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Danish, Old Swedish and younger form of GrímR (see *Grīmaz) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Old Danish and Old Swedish name deriving from Old Norse grimmr = 'grim, cruel, atrocious' (see also Grumme) [2]

Related Names

Grim
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Grimm
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Grim
Genitive: Grims
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Grim
Genitive: Grims

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional 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 Sweden[7]
281 451 0 5 281 446
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
10 0 0
n.a.
10
Denmark Denmark[10]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
128
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
128
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Grim (m) Sources: [7][10][11][9]


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no