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Male Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Anglicised form of Amlethus [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Amlóði
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Hamlet
|
Genitive: |
Hamlets
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Hamlet
|
Genitive: |
Hamletin
|
Partitive: |
Hamletia
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Hamlet
|
Genitive: |
Hamlets
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Hamlet
|
Genitive: |
Hamlets
|
Further Information
Period of Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 14 people were named Hamlet (percentage of first or only given name: 0 %) [6]
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& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
46 |
69 |
0 |
2 |
46 |
67 |
Denmark[8] |
|
7 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
7 |
n.a. |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
3 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
3 |
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Hamlet.
References
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/