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Hans
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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic
Origin and Meaning
German short form of Johannes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
| Aansi | ♂ |   |
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| Ãnse | ♂ | |
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| Haansi | ♂ | |
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| Hanns | ♂ |   |
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| Hans | ♂ |   |
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| Hánsa | ♂ |  |
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| Hãnse | ♂ | |
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| Hansi | ♂ |  |
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| Hanski | ♂ | |
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| Hanss | ♂ | |
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| Hanssi | ♂ | |
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| Hansu | ♂ | |
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| Hensar | ♂ | |
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See also Hampe, Hanno, Hanseraq, Hansinnguaq, Hasse
For female forms see Hansa, Hansina, Handine, Hanttu
Patronyms (male)
| Hansen |
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| Hansén |
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| Hanson |
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| Hanssen |
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| Hansson |
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Patronyms (female)
| Hansdatter |
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| Hansdotter |
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| Hansdóttir |
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Combinations
For combinations see HANS (name element)
Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hans |
| Genitive: | Hans' |
| - Faroese |
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| Nominative: | Hans |
| Accusative: | Hans |
| Dative: | Hansi |
| Genitive: | Hans |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hans |
| Genitive: | Hansin |
| Partitive: | Hansia |
| - Icelandic |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hans |
| Accusative: | Hans |
| Dative: | Hans |
| Genitive: | Hans |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hans |
| Genitive: | Hans' |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hans |
| Genitive: | Hans' / Hans |
Name Days
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24 June |
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27 December |
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24 June |
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27 December |
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29 August |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Denmark: Sønderjylland, Lolland-Falster [4]
- Norway: Sør-Austlandet (in the Middle Ages) [6]
- Sweden: Stockholm [7]
Namesakes
- Hans (né Johannes; 2 February 1455 – 20 February 1513), King of Denmark (1481–1513), Norway (1483–1513), and, as Johan II, of Sweden (1497–1501) in the Kalmar Union, and also Duke of Schleswig and Holstein
- Hans Jákupsson Debes (1723–1769), Faroese lawyer, Faroese løgmaður (1752-1769)
- Hans Järta (originally Hans Hierta, 11 February 1774 - 6 April 1847), Swedish administrator and revolutionary
- Hans Christian Ørsted (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields
- Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), Danish author and poet
- Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin (15 February 1873 – 6 November 1964), German-born Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate
(Chemistry, 1929) - Hans Rosander (5 January 1937 – 12 September 2016), Swedish football player
- Hans Gösta Rosling (27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017), Swedish physician, academic, statistician and public speaker
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[9] |
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8 | 25 | 49916 | 119037 |
| Denmark[10] |
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1 | n.a. | 32850 | n.a. |
| Norway[11] |
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0 | n.a. | 21398 | n.a. |
| Iceland[12] |
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0 | 0 | 149 | 219 |
| Finland[13] |
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0 | 0 | n.a. | 6722 |
| #: 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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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (2015)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables