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Male Name
Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling of Halfdan [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Halfdanr
Male
Halvdanarson
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Halvdansen
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Halvdansson
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Female
Halvdanardóttir
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Halvdansdatter
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Halvdansdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Halvdan
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Genitive: |
Halvdans
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Halvdan
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Accusative: |
Halvdan
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Dative: |
Halvdani
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Genitive: |
Halvdanar / Halvdans
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Halvdan
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Genitive: |
Halvdans
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Halvdan
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Genitive: |
Halvdans
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Name Day
Norway
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20 November
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Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Halvdan Koht (7 July 1873 – 12 December 1965), Norwegian historian and politician
- Halvdan Johannes Sivertsen (born 5 January 1950), Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 185 people were named Halvdan (percentage of first or only given name: 12 %) [4]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[5] |
|
0 |
35 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
35 |
Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
7 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
7 |
Denmark[7] |
|
2 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
Norway[8] |
|
125 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
125 |
n.a. |
Greenland[9] |
|
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 Halvdan.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/