Hedin

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Male Male Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Heðinn [1] [2]

Related Names

See Heðinn

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hedin
Genitive: Hedins
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hedin
Genitive: Hedins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hedin
Genitive: Hedins

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 12 people were named Hedin (percentage of first or only given name: 17 %) [4]

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&
Denmark Denmark[5]
21
n.a.
0
n.a.
21
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
2 3 0 0 2 3
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
11
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
  #: 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 Hedin.


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi