Gulliver

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname, which derives from

1) Old French goulafre = 'glutton', a nickname for a greedy person [1]

2) Old French goulafre = 'bookworm', a nickname for a smart person (?) [2]

Related Names

Gulliver
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

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gulliver
Genitive: Gullivers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gulliver
Genitive: Gulliverin
Partitive: Gulliveria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gulliver
Genitive: Gullivers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gulliver
Genitive: Gullivers

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[3]
16 62 0 0 16 62
Denmark Denmark[4]
9
n.a.
0
n.a.
9
n.a.
Norway Norway[5]
7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
7
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[7]
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 Gulliver.


References

  1. Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/